"human microphone" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2013 January 8, Rossana Reguillo, “Human Mic: Technologies for Democracy”, in North American Congress on Latin America, retrieved 2013-01-09",
          "text": "By linking the word to the body and the crowd, the human microphone transformed an obstacle into an important asset for the social movements in the street.",
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        "A means of delivering a speech to a large crowd, where the speaker says a few words at a time, and people within hearing of the speaker repeat it in unison. Used to work around police bans of electronic amplifiers."
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          "word": "the people's microphone"
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