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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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verb
To make optional; to add as an option, permit to be optionally omitted, or provide various options for implementing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
From optional + -ize.
