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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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adj
Composed of semantic (or linguistic), visual, and sonic elements in synthesis.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Topics: communications, journalism, literature, media, poetry, publishing, writing
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Coined by James Joyce in the experimental novel Finnegans Wake. Perhaps verbi- (from "verbiage"?) + Latin vocō ("to name") + visual, possibly influenced by Ezra Pound's Three Kinds of Poetry. Now frequently associated with Concrete poetry following its use by Augusto de Campos and other concrete poets in the mid-to-late 1950s.
