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syntone

syntone noun: a unit of synthesized sound used in creating artificial voices.

Noun

syntone (plural syntones)

  1. (historical) A 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. A person whose emotional state is in harmony with their environment.
  3. Synonym of syntonic comma.
    Synonyms:
    syntonic comma

Synonyms of syntone

Forms of syntone

pluralsyntones

Questions about syntone

What does syntone mean?
Syntone means a unit of synthesized sound used in creating artificial voices.
What part of speech is syntone?
Syntone is a noun.
What is the plural of syntone?
The plural of syntone is syntones.

Words near syntone in the dictionary

  1. synthy
  2. syntices
  3. synto
  4. syntocinon
  5. syntomic
  6. syntone
  7. syntones
  8. syntonic
  9. syntonic comma
  10. syntonic commas
  11. syntonical

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