Grand telegraphic discovery today โฆ Transmitted vocal sounds for the first time ... With some further modification I hope we may be enabled to distinguish โฆ the โtimbreโ of the sound. Should this be so, conversation viva voce by telegraph will be a fait accompli.
Alexander Graham BellThere are two critical points in every aerial flight-its beginning and its end.
Alexander Graham BellOrdinary people who know nothing of phonetics or elocution have difficulties in understanding slow speech composed of perfect sounds, while they have no difficulty in comprehending an imperfect gabble if only the accent and rhythm are natural.
Alexander Graham Bell