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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.
noun
Any upright or console model phonograph from the early 1900s, usually with a wooden cabinet body and an interior horn for the projection of sound, that plays 78 rpm records using a steel needle.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A brand-name model of phonograph and phonograph records manufactured and sold by the Victor Talking Machine Company and later RCA Victor beginning in 1906.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
a brand of gramophone
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: gramophone, acoustic gramophone
History
From the brand name Victrola.
From Victor + -ola, modeled after pianola.
