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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
A flat sheet of metal (generally square or circular) mounted on a central pillar, over which sand or other particles are sprinkled, which when bowed vibrates and arranges the sand particles into patterns (Chladni figures), allowing for the visualization, and analysis, of sound.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
Named after their inventor, German scientist Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni.
