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Recent Examples of intonation
Today, Nova Sonic is available in English, Spanish, French, Italian and German and offers both masculine and feminine intonations for voice agents assisting consumers.
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Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 16 July 2025
Dicey intonation in the final chorus and Mandane’s second-act aria aside, the group’s unity and expression was impressive, from exactly seesawing strings to Brandon Acker’s bleak, mournful lute under Artaserse’s first-act lament.
—Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 28 June 2025
From the start, Pygmalion’s musicians stood out, not so much for their pristine intonation and liquid legato—today’s early-music ensembles have transcended the scrawniness of yore—as for their vibrant phrasing, their bold colors, their air of spontaneous excitement.
—Alex Ross, New Yorker, 23 June 2025
However, text alone fails to capture many key aspects of human speech, such as intonation, that help to convey meaning.
—IEEE Spectrum, 19 June 2025
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Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 16 July 2025
Dicey intonation in the final chorus and Mandane’s second-act aria aside, the group’s unity and expression was impressive, from exactly seesawing strings to Brandon Acker’s bleak, mournful lute under Artaserse’s first-act lament.
—Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 28 June 2025
From the start, Pygmalion’s musicians stood out, not so much for their pristine intonation and liquid legato—today’s early-music ensembles have transcended the scrawniness of yore—as for their vibrant phrasing, their bold colors, their air of spontaneous excitement.
—Alex Ross, New Yorker, 23 June 2025
However, text alone fails to capture many key aspects of human speech, such as intonation, that help to convey meaning.
—IEEE Spectrum, 19 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for intonation
Noun
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That feature, called Voice Translate is designed to also preserve the speaker's voice inflections.—
Kif Leswing,
CNBC,
12 Sep. 2025
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Companies that can supply more, if not all, of those functions are likely to be the leaders through the next market inflection.—
Jim McGregor,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The 14,200-square-foot unit at 8 Via Montenapoleone, slated to open to the public on Saturday, also carries a strong Italian accent in terms of materials, furnishings and artworks scattered across the three-story building, which dates back to the 1500s but was rebuilt in 1952.—
Andrea Onate,
Footwear News,
19 Sep. 2025
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English was Roberto’s second language, with an accent and the era’s universally white sports writers would punctuate their coverage by mocking his accent.—
Stephen Schaefer,
Boston Herald,
19 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The team showed that the material continued to function after long exposure to stress and acidic corrosion, conditions similar to those in the gastrointestinal tract.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
19 Sep. 2025
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So, on May 5, Boone said yes to the stress and returned to the Majors as the Rangers hitting coach, joining the team of hitting coach Justin Viele and assistant hitting coach Seth Conner.—
Candace Oehler,
Forbes.com,
19 Sep. 2025
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The emphasis on ball movement has multiple players posting some of their best career seasons.—
Matthew Coller,
Twin Cities,
13 Sep. 2025
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Nearly every aspiring interface designer believed the way we were forced to interact with computers was limiting and frustrating, but one man in particular felt the emphasis on design itself missed the forest for the trees.—
Cameron Kaiser,
ArsTechnica,
12 Sep. 2025
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“Intonation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intonation. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.
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