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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 natural language, one that arose without intentional design.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
Qualifier: natural language processing
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: conlang, constructed language
History
Syllabic abbreviation of natural language, by analogy with conlang. By surface analysis, nat (clipping of natural) + -lang.
