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  2. Call-progress tone - Wikipedia

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    The use of signalling protocols rather than audible tones means that a voice channel to the distant switch is unnecessary unless a call is connected. This saves network bandwidth, switch capacity and is often more user friendly as it can provide local tones or even on-screen feedback to end users.

  3. Deep Note - Wikipedia

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    The sound is used on trailers for THX-certified movie theaters, home video releases, video games, and in-car entertainment systems. The Deep Note was partially previewed on the opening track of the 1983 album The Digital Domain: A Demonstration, where it was included among sound effects that were combined with the Deep Note itself.

  4. Sound effect - Wikipedia

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    The term sound effect dates back to the early days of radio. In its Year Book 1931 the BBC published a major article about "The Use of Sound Effects". It considers sound effects deeply linked with broadcasting and states: "It would be a great mistake to think of them as analogous to punctuation marks and accents in print.

  5. 3D audio effect - Wikipedia

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    These effects include localization of sound sources behind, above and below the listener. Some 3D technologies also convert binaural recordings to stereo recordings. 3D Positional Audio effects emerged in the 1990s in PC and video game consoles. 3D audio techniques have also been incorporated in music and video-game style music video arts.

  6. Off-hook tone - Wikipedia

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    The signal is applied to the local loop by the switching system for permanent signal treatment to alert an end user (subscriber) of an off-hook condition of the telephone set, i.e. that the telephone handset should be placed on-hook. Before playing the signal, a certain timeout has to elapse, and on some systems an intercept message is ...

  7. Disconnect tone - Wikipedia

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    Reproduction of an iOS phone disconnect tone (not the original audio) A disconnect tone in telephony is a tone provided to the remaining party to a call after the remote party hangs up. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Typically, the disconnect tone is a few cycles of the reorder , busy , or the off-hook tone (e.g. in US), or between five and fifteen seconds of the ...

  8. Foley (filmmaking) - Wikipedia

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    Foley can also include other sounds, such as doors closing and doorbells ringing; however, these tend to be done more efficiently using stock sound effects, arranged by sound editors. Foley effects help the viewer judge the size of a space. For example, a large hall has strong reverberation, while a small room may have only slight reverberation ...

  9. Phone (phonetics) - Wikipedia

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    Phones are the segments of speech that possesses distinct physical or perceptual properties, regardless of whether the exact sound is critical to the meanings of words. . Whereas a phone is a concrete sound used across various spoken languages, a phoneme is more abstract and narrowly defined: any class of phones that the users of a particular language nevertheless perceive as a single basic ...