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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
Synonym of teletype: a telegraph that automatically prints transmitted messages in letters rather than Morse code or other symbols; the telegrams produced by this device.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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Synonyms: teletype
Antonyms: none provided
History
A sumpsimus variation of teletype using the less common Ancient Greek form telo- (“far, distant, telegraph”) + type.
