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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
An organ stop consisting of either one or two ranks of pipes slightly out of tune, so as to produce a beating effect when combined with a normally tuned rank.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: vox angelica
Antonyms: none provided
History
Borrowed from French voix céleste (“heavenly voice”).
