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These employees, known internally as the "Golden Ear Team," fine-tuned the notebook's audio-frequency software so that someone listening to classical music would be able to easily follow the strains of a violin, if desired.
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He would be able to hear the shrill sonar-cries of bats, for instance, and, more important, he would be able to hear voices when the speaker used a First Level audio-frequency step-up phone.
Temple Trouble H. Beam Piper 1934
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For phonic communication a spherical sending battery is a ball of metultron, surrounded by an insulating shell of inertron, and this in turn by a spherical shell of katultron, from which the current radiates in every direction, tuning being accomplished by frequency of intermissions, with audio-frequency modulation.
The Airlords of Han Philip Francis Nowlan 1914
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These employees, known internally as the "Golden Ear Team," fine-tuned the notebook's audio-frequency software so that someone listening to classical music would be able to easily follow the strains of a violin, if desired.
Lockergnome Ron Schenone 2010
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The National Transportation Safety Board on Tuesday issued six urgent safety recommendations to train systems across the country that use the same kind of audio-frequency track circuits that figured into the deadly Metro crash in Washington in June.
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"You see, Clio, their voices are pitched either higher or lower than ours -- probably higher -- and they've built an audio-frequency changer.
Triplanetary 1927
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"A silent communications system in which nonaural carriers, in the very low (ELF) or very high audio-frequency (VHF) range or in the adjacent ultrasonic frequency spectrum, are amplitude - or frequency-modulated with the desired intelligence and propagated acoustically or vibrationally, for inducement into the brain, typically through the use of loudspeakers, earphones, or piezoelectric transducers.
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