speech sound
noun
,
Phonetics
1.
any of the set of distinctive sounds of a given language.
Compare
phoneme
.
2.
any audible, elemental, acoustic event occurring in speech:
“Go” contains the speech sound “o.”
.
Compare
phone
2
.
3.
any of the sounds of the entire phonetic system of a language.
Compare
allophone
.
Origin
1865-70
Examples from the web for
speech sound
The solution seemed to be to use a system of non-
speech sound
codes for the letters that the print scanner identified.