Of all the stupid things that classical composers ever came up with, this has to be one of the worst. Arnold Schoenberg was mainly "credited" for its development. A definition of sprechstimme is "A form of dramatic declamation between singing and speaking, in which the speaker uses lilt and rhythm but not precise pitches."
If you think you can endure a few seconds of it, here is a LINK to an example of sprechstimme
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