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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 automated phone call, commonly for telemarketing purposes, that uses both an autodialer and a recorded message.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US
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verb
To make a robocall to.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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History
From robo- + call. First use appears c. 1998 in the Associated Press Newswire.
Across languages
4 source translations are retained for this English entry.
