Talk:Visible Speech

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Hey Kara! Great page, I found it very informative. I think you did a great job adding content that was definitely required to get a full understanding of Visible Speech. It had great flow, and was an easy enough read (I didn't have to re-read it at all in order to understand). The only change I would consider making would be to maybe add in a few more headings, instead of just having 'Visible Speech'. Maybe something like 'History' or 'How Visible Speech Came to Be', or something along those lines. But other than that, I really liked it! Great work :)

Mazzy29 (talk) 14:30, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

Okay, so, the first paragraph that you have added is a little bit redundant with the paragraph that was already there. You could maybe add a few more in-article links, like to 'spectrograph' and it would be really awesome if you could some how get one of those great pictures of the symbols on the side to be incorporated in the text. The part you have addded however, is very interesting and definitely improves the article! BLaB1236 (talk) 02:31, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

"These images depict Melville Bell's intention of creating a script in which the characters actually look like the position of the mouth when speaking them out loud"

This is not quite accurate and potentially misleading. The character look like the position of the tongue; except lips. C like are back of the tongue. D like are the lips. U like are tip of tongue. And n like are top of tongue. Then it is modified based on weather it is a stop or nasal, un-modified reflect fricatives. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.69.4.20 (talk) 23:59, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

Notes From Kara's Final Edit
I decided that I did not want to add the pictures from the side into the text because they are not as relevant to the form of Visible Speech I chose to focus on. I chose to focus on Graham Bell's, rather than Melville Bell's system of Visible Speech, and I was unable to obtain photographs of the spectrograph patterns that were used in Graham Bell's system. —Preceding unsigned comment added by BearsBeatBattlestarGalactica (talk • contribs) Is there a difference between Graham's and Melville's?

Where is the text source for Graham's "improvement'? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.69.4.20 (talk) 23:53, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

Note: Spectrograph Link Incorrect
The link for the term --spectrograph-- links to a light spectrograph not the sound spectrograph of the article. A disambiguation page and article about the device Bell used is needed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jambaugh (talk • contribs) 18:39, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

Make a comparison to the International Phonetic Alphabet
From a WikiProject writing systems perspective, this article is worse than the IPA article. Sisima70 (talk) 20:13, 18 August 2015 (UTC)

The Sound and the Silence
This excellent biopic has a sequence in which Melville Bell, promoting Visible Speech, invites three members of a skeptical group to suggest any words or speech sounds, which three other people (one of whom is Graham Bell) in another room will try to reproduce from Visible Speech notation. Needless to say, they succeed. WilliamSommerwerck (talk) 19:54, 16 July 2017 (UTC)

Broken link: American Memory: Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers
In the external links section Paradox (talk) 16:15, 5 October 2022 (UTC)