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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
An executable file with a known structure and/or file size, designed to be infected by a file-infecting computer virus in order to facilitate the study of such.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: computer security
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Antonyms: none provided
History
Named thus because the file acts as a "sacrificial goat".
