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VOICING [8 records]

Record 1 2018-06-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Music
DEF

The arrangement of musical notes to form a chord.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Musique

Spanish

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Record 2 2017-11-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Programs and Programming
CONT

[The] portal ... is augmented to allow visually impaired users to access the site via screen readers and self-voicing browsers.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Programmes et programmation (Informatique)
CONT

Les internautes malvoyants utilisent des navigateurs à synthèse vocale.

Spanish

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Record 3 2013-05-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Music (General)
CONT

The simplest voicing for a four note chord is the close position voicing, in which all the notes in the chord are arranged as close together as possible.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Musique (Généralités)

Spanish

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Record 4 2012-11-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Music (General)
  • Jazz
CONT

Creating drop voicings begins with a 4-way close voicing, one in which all four chord tones are within one octave.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Musique (Généralités)
  • Jazz

Spanish

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Record 5 2001-11-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Storage Media (Data Processing)
  • Office Automation
DEF

A condition most commonly found in earlier magnetic belt voice recording systems where an echo effect was noticeable until the transcriber sound head was tuned to the same place and on the same track where the recording was made.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Supports d'information (Informatique)
  • Bureautique

Spanish

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Record 6 2000-03-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Phonetics
  • Language (General)
DEF

Historically, the change of a consonant from voiceless to voiced.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Phonétique
  • Linguistique (Généralités)
DEF

Présence, apparition d'un trait voisé dans un phonème.

CONT

Le voisement ou l'absence de voisement peut affecter n'importe quel type de production phonique, aussi bien voyelles que consonnes.

Spanish

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Record 7 1986-07-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
CONT

Some speech drivers might voice the entire screen every time a new character is typed on a standard word-processing package. To prevent the constant voicing of the entire screen, an operator might choose to turn off the voice feature while editing, and turn it back to hear the completed changes.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
OBS

Comparer à "lecture silencieuse" et "lecture optique".

Spanish

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Record 8 1986-07-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
CONT

The talking operating systems sit in the background, just like a disk operating system, until they are called upon to accomplish their verbal tasks.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle

Spanish

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