The minister's speech sounded quite different when the newspapers had mauled it about.

当报界对此妄加评论时, 部长的讲话听起来则截然不同。

(linguistics) divided or organized into speech segments or isolable speech sounds.

（语言学）分开、组成言语片段或是孤立语音。

Phonetics deals with speech sounds.

语音学是研究语言声音的。