syntone

English

Noun

syntone (plural syntones)

  1. (historical) A unit of synthesized sound used in creating artificial voices.
    • 2013, Dmitri Zakharine, ‎Nils Meise, Electrified Voices (page 176)
      [] syntones with sharp formants, very much reminding [sic] early computer music experiments with synthesized voices by Newman Guttman at Bell Laboratories in 1957 by means of Music4 software.
  2. (psychology) A person whose emotional state is in harmony with their environment.
  3. (music) Synonym of syntonic comma.

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Adjective

syntone (plural syntones)

  1. syntonic

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