direct speech

noun

1. the reporting of what someone has said or written by quoting his exact words

Example Sentences

The researchers observed that cortical activity tracks energy changes related to direct speech, despite the strong interference of the echo.

From Science Daily

This remained true even when participants were told to direct their attention toward a silent film and ignore the story, suggesting that top-down attention isn't required to mentally separate direct speech and its echo.

From Science Daily

Belafonte never makes a direct speech about injustice.

From New York Times

Called YIKO, it’s a natural language processing technology that takes direct speech commands, so you can tell it to start, stop, and where to clean without getting out a phone or talking to a smart speaker.

From The Verge

Facebook officials explicitly exempt the ads and other “direct speech” by politicians from their system of fact-checking, the creation of which was a key reform after Russians and others flooded Facebook, its subsidiary Instagram and other social media platforms with disinformation in 2016.

From Washington Post