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Meaning of "optophone" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF OPTOPHONE

optophone  [ˈɒptəˌfəʊn] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF OPTOPHONE

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determiner
exclamation
Optophone is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES OPTOPHONE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

optophone

Optophone

The optophone is a device, used by the blind, that scans text and generates time-varying chords of tones to identify letters. It is one of the earliest known applications of sonification. Dr. Edmund Fournier d'Albe of Birmingham University invented the optophone in 1913, which used selenium photosensors to detect black print and convert it into an audible output which could be interpreted by a blind person. Barr and Stroud participated in improving the resolution and usability of the instrument. Only a few units were built and reading initially exceedingly slow; a demonstration at the 1918 Exhibition involved Mary Jameson reading at one word per minute. Later models of the Optophone allowed speeds of up to 60 words per minute, though only some subjects are able to achieve this rate.

Definition of optophone in the English dictionary

The definition of optophone in the dictionary is a device for blind people that converts printed words into sounds.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH OPTOPHONE


Anglophone
ˈæŋɡləˌfəʊn
answerphone
ˈɑːnsəˌfəʊn
detectophone
dɪˈtektəˌfəʊn
Dictaphone
ˈdɪktəˌfəʊn
earphone
ˈɪəˌfəʊn
gramophone
ˈɡræməˌfəʊn
homophone
ˈhɒməˌfəʊn
hydrophone
ˈhaɪdrəˌfəʊn
interphone
ˈɪntəˌfəʊn
megaphone
ˈmɛɡəˌfəʊn
mellophone
ˈmɛləˌfəʊn
microphone
ˈmaɪkrəˌfəʊn
saxophone
ˈsæksəˌfəʊn
sousaphone
ˈsuːzəˌfəʊn
speakerphone
ˈspiːkəˌfəʊn
superphone
ˈsuːpəˌfəʊn
vibraphone
ˈvaɪbrəˌfəʊn
videophone
ˈvɪdɪəˌfəʊn
Vitaphone
ˈvaɪtəˌfəʊn
xylophone
ˈzaɪləˌfəʊn

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE OPTOPHONE

option
option money
optional
optional hyphen
optionality
optionally
optionee
options market
optoacoustic
optoelectronic
optoelectronics
optokinetic
optologist
optology
optometer
optometric
optometrical
optometrist
optometry
optronics

WORDS THAT END LIKE OPTOPHONE

alto saxophone
camera phone
cameraphone
car phone
cell phone
cellphone
cellular phone
cellular telephone
Francophone
freephone
geophone
handphone
iPhone
mobile phone
payphone
Persephone
phone
radio microphone
smartphone
telephone
visiophone

Synonyms and antonyms of optophone in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «optophone» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF OPTOPHONE

Find out the translation of optophone to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of optophone from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «optophone» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

optophone
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

optophone
570 millions of speakers

English

optophone
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

optophone
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مبصار سمعي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

optophone
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

optophone
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

optophone
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

optophone
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Optophone
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

optophone
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

optophone
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

optophone
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Optophone
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

optophone
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

optophone
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

ऑप्टोफोन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

optofon
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

optophone
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

optophone
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

optophone
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

optophone
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

optophone
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

opto foon
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

optophone
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

optophone
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of optophone

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «OPTOPHONE»

The term «optophone» is barely ever used and occupies the 199.846 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «OPTOPHONE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about optophone

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OPTOPHONE»

Discover the use of optophone in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to optophone and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Research on Reading Machines for the Blind: A Progress ...
Optophone and Optophone Simulator. The Optophone has been mentioned in other sections as an outstanding example of earlier attempts to build a direct translation non-integrating type of reading machine. Because of the background of ...
Haskins Laboratories, 1947
2
Evaluation of Sensory Aids for the Visually Handicapped: A ...
The intention in 1957 was to try to combine the best features of the optophone and speech-synthesis types with audible output related to letter shape (without recognition) but sounding like a foreign language. After some years of vigorous ...
‎1972
3
Scientific American
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‎1920
4
Beyond Art: A Third Culture: A Comparative Study in ...
Optophonetics If there is an appropriate technical structure, the optophone has the power, or rather the ability to display the audio equivalent of each optical phenomenon, or in other words, it transforms the differences in the oscillation of light ...
Peter Weibel, 2005
5
Popular Mechanics
Hearing the "sound" of moonlight appears a fantastic notion without commonsense foundation, but that such a thing is possible is the claim made by Fournier D'Albe, of the Birmingham (England) University, the inventor of the " optophone.
6
Harmony and Dissent: Film and Avant-garde Art Movements in ...
Fournier d'Albe's first Optophone was similar to the Elektroftalm in that it used selenium cells to distinguish light from dark areas. Though this instrument received a lot of good press, it was criticized by Sir Washington Ranger, a blind solicitor, ...
R. Bruce Elder, 2008
7
Modernism and Magic: Experiments with Spiritualism, ...
However, in the optophone, the human operator is finally disposed of. The technology of the optophone demonstrates that it is in the machine that the reversibility of sound and sight, and its consequent possibilities, reside. Sound does not just ...
Leigh Wilson, 2013
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Modernism and Magic: Experiments with Spiritualism, ...
However, in the optophone, the human operator is finally disposed of. The technology of the optophone demonstrates that it is in the machine that the reversibility of sound and sight, and its consequent possibilities, reside. Sound does not just ...
Leigh Wilson, 2012
9
Editor and Publisher
By THOMAS H. ORMSBEE Miss Margret R. Hogan, instructor in the New Jersey Conunisoion for the Blind. reading daily newcpnpen by mean. of the Optophone. Mia Hogan has also been able similarly to read magazines, books and ...
‎1921
10
Media Parasites in the Early Avant-Garde: On the Abuse of ...
The “directly writing phonograph” adopts the technological setting that is also common to Hausmann's optophone, but Hausmann's the device can device uses the technology in a different way. While the earlier apparatus attempted to ...
Arndt Niebisch, 2012

3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OPTOPHONE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term optophone is used in the context of the following news items.
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The Weekly Good News From Israel : Business, Science …
A new article about the Optophone, developed by Israeli Professor Zev Zalevsky of Bar Ilan University. It can pick up conversations, heartbeats, ... «Jewish Business News, Jun 14»
2
Great Works: The Art Critic 1919-20 (31.8x25.4 cms), Raoul …
... many of its events and soirées. In 1927, he tried to patent a device called the "Optophone", which was intended to convert light into sound. «The Independent, May 11»
3
The Political Eisenberg
“His rallying cry, 'no way,' which once rang out over the land…has been altered by Captain Corporation's co-optophone into, 'whatever. «Brooklyn Rail, Nov 10»

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« EDUCALINGO. Optophone [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/optophone>. May 2024 ».
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