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- noun A device, used by the
blind , that scanstext and generates a differentsound for eachcharacter
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Examples
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“What in the devil could you do if we were?” the optophone snarled in return.
"Once in a Blue Moon" by Harl Vincent, part 1 Johnny Pez 2009
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Clark Peters, his optophone operator and auxiliary pilot, broke in on his meditations.
"Once in a Blue Moon" by Harl Vincent, part 1 Johnny Pez 2009
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Every available space ship of the terrestrial government was pressed into service and the liners of the Tri-planetary system already in transit were advised by optophone to keep close watch for the wanderer.
"Too Many Boards" by Harl Vincent, part 3 Johnny Pez 2009
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Frantic efforts to raise the ship's hyper-optophone failed utterly, and the chief despatcher made haste to report the calamity.
Archive 2009-07-01 Johnny Pez 2009
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He switched off the optophone as he spoke, and his grin had crystallized into an ominous thing that had no mirth in it.
"Once in a Blue Moon" by Harl Vincent, part 1 Johnny Pez 2009
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Frantic efforts to raise the ship's hyper-optophone failed utterly, and the chief despatcher made haste to report the calamity.
"Too Many Boards" by Harl Vincent, part 3 Johnny Pez 2009
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The voice of his chief clerk spoke from the optophone, simultaneously with the appearance of that individual's alert features in its disc.
Archive 2009-06-01 Johnny Pez 2009
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Captain Davis stood at the hyper-optophone in the control room of his space ship.
"Too Many Boards" by Harl Vincent, part 3 Johnny Pez 2009
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And, right now, your first act is going to be a full and complete confession to the Manager of the terrestrial government -- over the optophone.
"Too Many Boards" by Harl Vincent, part 5 Johnny Pez 2009
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And, right now, your first act is going to be a full and complete confession to the Manager of the terrestrial government -- over the optophone.
Archive 2009-07-01 Johnny Pez 2009
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Optophones convert type into patterns of audible tones.
OPTOPHONIC READING, PROTOTYPING OPTOPHONES - Amodern Tiffany Chan 2020
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Optophones are often recalled as tools for sonification, and indeed a precursor model – the “exploring optophone” (see Figure 2) – converted light into sounds of corresponding intensity, as a proposed aid to navigation.
OPTOPHONIC READING, PROTOTYPING OPTOPHONES - Amodern Tiffany Chan 2020
whichbe commented on the word optophone
Instrument enabling blind to read by transforming light into sound. (Luciferous Logolepsy)
May 18, 2008