Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The diagram or record of speech or other sound made by a phonautograph or a gramophone.
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- noun A
recording made with aphonautograph .
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Examples
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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.
Archive 2008-03-01 Lisa Hirsch 2008
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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.
Whoa. Lisa Hirsch 2008
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The catch here is that the recording, in the form of a phonautogram, was never intended for playback.
Whoa. Lisa Hirsch 2008
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The catch here is that the recording, in the form of a phonautogram, was never intended for playback.
Archive 2008-03-01 Lisa Hirsch 2008
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His invention, the phonautogram, enabled him to create a visual representation of his voice.
CNN.com 2012
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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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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.
2008 March 2008
vanishedone commented on the word phonautogram
A kind of early sound recording.
March 28, 2008