electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds | the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract |
electro-acoustic transducer for converting electric signals into sounds; it is held over or inserted into the ear | the use of uttered sounds for auditory communication |
(phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language | |