Definition of "respeak"

respeak

verb
third-person singular simple present respeaks, present participle respeaking, simple past respoke or (archaic, poetic) respake, past participle respoken
1. To speak or utter again.
2. (television) To repeat the words of a televised person so that they can be electronically recognised and used to generate subtitles.
3. (poetic, obsolete) To answer; to echo.
  Quotations
  And the King's rouse the heaven shall bruit again,Re-speaking earthly thunder.
  c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act I, scene ii], lines 127-128