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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 interactive cut scene-like sequence in a video game where the player has a limited time in which to push a button, or sequence of buttons, displayed on screen.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: video-games
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History
Introduced by the Japanese 1999 action-adventure video game Shenmue.
Across languages
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