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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 character encoding used to transmit information through telegraphy machines.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A mapping of arbitrary words to full sentences in a particular domain, to allow messages to be shortened and sent more cheaply by telegraph.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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History
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Across languages
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