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Time-compressed speech refers to an audio recording of verbal text in which the text is presented in a much shorter time interval than it would through normally-paced real time speech .. real time. real time ( media ). The basic purpose is to make recorded speech contain more words in a given time , yet still be understandable .. For example  : a paragraph that might normally be expected to take 20 seconds to read , might instead be presented in 15 seconds , which would represent a time-compression of 25 % -LRB- 5 seconds out of 20 -RRB- .. The term `` time-compressed speech '' should not be confused with `` speech compression '' , which controls the volume range of a sound , but does not alter its time envelope .. speech compression. Dynamic range compression