talkie /ˈtɔːki/ noun2 •(informal, old-fashioned) A movie with sound, as opposed to a silent film.“We have just returned from the talkies.” “They should never have added sound. There was pop music and people talking all the way through it.” — 2020 •(old-fashioned) A song in which the lyrics are spoken rather than sung."[Love] Jones," [named after] a slang expression for addiction, was a string-infested talkie-thing that surprised many folks when it mounted for the upper reaches of Billboard’s pop charts. — 1990 formstalkies
