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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
Synthetic background noise used in radio and wireless communications to fill the artificial silence in a transmission resulting from voice activity detection or from the audio clarity of modern digital lines.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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Synonyms: comfort tone
Antonyms: none provided
History
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