Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The diagram or record of speech or other sound made by a phonautograph or a gramophone.
Wiktionary
- n. A recording made with a phonautograph.
Examples
“The article includes an mp3 version of the phonautogram, which is about on par with the Mapleson cylinders for audio quality, as well as a perfectly lovely 1931 rendition by an unidentified soprano.”
“The catch here is that the recording, in the form of a phonautogram, was never intended for playback.”
“His invention, the phonautogram, enabled him to create a visual representation of his voice.”
“Scott’s work is not unknown to audio historians, but this is the first time that modern technology has been able to reproduce the sound from a phonautogram in a meaningful way.”
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vanishedone A kind of early sound recording. Mar 27, 2008