syntone

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noun

A unit of synthesized sound used in creating artificial voices.

Scrabble 10

Meanings

nounsyntone (plural syntones)

plural syntones

  1. historicalA unit of synthesized sound used in creating artificial voices.

    […] syntones with sharp formants, very much reminding early computer music experiments with synthesized voices by Newman Guttman at Bell Laboratories in 1957 by means of Music4 software.

    2013, Dmitri Zakharine, Nils Meise, Electrified Voices (page 176)
  2. human sciencesA person whose emotional state is in harmony with their environment.
  3. entertainmentSynonym of syntonic comma.

    Synonyms: syntonic comma

Synonyms & antonyms

nounSynonym of syntonic comma.

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Chicago

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