Audio-lingual
pertaining to listening comprehension and speaking, especially in learning a foreign language.
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- Audio indexing
noun see audio mining
- Audio lingual method
a technique of foreign-language instruction that emphasizes audio-lingual skills over reading and writing and is characterized by extensive use of pattern practice.
- Audiology
the study of hearing disorders, including evaluation of hearing function and rehabilitation of patients with hearing impairments. noun the scientific study of hearing, often including the treatment of persons with hearing defects n. science of hearing and treatment of deafness, 1946, from audio- + -ology. related: audiologist. audiology au·di·ol·o·gy (ô’dē-ŏl’ə-jē) n. the study of hearing […]
- Audiometer
an instrument for gauging and recording acuity of hearing. historical examples audiometer, awd-i-om′et-ėr, n. an instrument for measuring and recording differences in the power of hearing. chambers’s twentieth century dictionary (part 1 of 4: a-d) various noun an instrument for testing the intensity and frequency range of sound that is capable of detection by the […]
- Audio mining
noun in computing, the capture of large amounts of speech data for storage in archives which can be browsed, searched, and mined as easily as text; also called audio indexing examples audio mining will make recorded speech as indexable and searchable as printed text.