visible speech

/V IH1 Z AH0 B AH0 L S P IY1 CH/
noun
  1. 1

    An early phonetic alphabet, devised by Alexander Melville Bell in 1867, with the characters intended to suggest the articulations of the speech organs when uttering them.

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