The phrase "halted speech" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where someone's speech has been interrupted or stopped, either physically or metaphorically.
Example: "After the shocking news, his halted speech left everyone in the room in stunned silence."
Alternatives: "stammered speech" or "interrupted speech".
Mr. Rylance's galvanizing physical performance gives full due to Johnny the loser, with his imbalanced walk and halting speech, testaments to a bone-breaking, brain-frying life.
"They never told us anything," he said in halting speech, a result of his partly removed cerebellum and lingering paralysis throughout his right side.
His Carmichael isn't a character; he's Christopher Walken — the same Walken who has hosted "Saturday Night Live" and appeared in countless movies — with his intriguing (and then not) halting speech patterns and his sinister aesthetic.
The white-haired liberal legend with a bad back, halting speech and worn brown shoes has been called a "lion in winter" so many times that he has the political cliché version of frostbite.
At 5 p.m. on the dot, he climbed the front steps and gave a short, halting speech about the process of building a peace garden and his desire to produce something positive to alter the public's perception of Oikos and the Korean community at large.
It was only in 1998, when his symptoms — the uncontrollable tremors and halting speech that characterize those with Parkinson's — had become pronounced enough that he could no longer continue with his hit show "Spin City" that he finally let the news out.
Officer Jay's dialogue parodies the earnest, halting speeches that scriptwriters like to give to working stiffs: "You know, being a cop, I've seen things that make you crap a book on how to puke," he tells Laura.
John McCain's soporific, halting speeches will become the new gold standard of presidential trustworthiness. .
Mr. Bloomberg heard the noise and halted his speech, fixing a sharp stare in Mr. Harris's direction.
Lieutenant Governor Dewhurst halted her speech, claiming she had strayed off-topic, and had received unauthorised assistance fitting a back-brace to help her stay upright.
