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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 perceptual phenomenon where, when the auditory component of one sound is paired with the visual component of another sound, a third and different sound is perceived.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
First described in 1976 in a paper by Harry McGurk and John MacDonald.
