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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
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dialogue, tag.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A sentence part that attributes a piece of written dialogue to its speaker. (e.g. In "Get out of here," he said, "he said" is a dialogue tag.)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: authorship, broadcasting, communications, film, human-sciences, journalism, linguistics, literature, media, narratology, publishing, sciences, television, writing
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History
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Across languages
4 source translations are retained for this English entry.
