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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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name
Specifically, Ajax's monologue from lines 646–692 of Sophocles' play Ajax
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Oratory designed to mislead its audience; a speech of deception
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
Unadapted borrowing from German Trugrede, from Trug (“deception”) + Rede (“speech”).
