Visible Speech

Visible Speech is the name for a phonetic notation, which was introduced in 1867 by Scottish teacher Alexander Melville Bell. The character of the system encode it directly more information on manner of articulation and place of articulation of a sound. In contrast to alphabetic systems such as the best-known International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA ) is called a system such as the Visible Speech also " iconic notation system ". Visible Speech was intended to help deaf people to learn spoken language. Alexander Melville Bell's son - Alexander Graham Bell - who was like his father convinced Oralist could finally through the commercialization of his invention - the phone - make known Visible Speech to a wide audience. With the introduction of easier -to-learn IPA, this system has lost more and more influence.