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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 digitally recorded sample of a person's voice to be used as a means of identification.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
biometric identification by electronically recording and graphically representing a person's voice
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: biometric identification, biometric authentication, identity verification
History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *wekw-der. Proto-Indo-European *wṓkws Proto-Italic *wōks Latin vōcem Anglo-Norman voizbor. Middle English voys English voice English print English voiceprint From voice + print, analogous to fingerprint.
Across languages
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