"comfort noise" meaning in English

See comfort noise in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} comfort noise (uncountable)
  1. Synthetic background noise used in radio and wireless communications to fill the artificial silence in a transmission resulting from voice activity detection or from the audio clarity of modern digital lines. Wikipedia link: comfort noise Tags: uncountable Synonyms: comfort tone
    Sense id: en-comfort_noise-en-noun-LptJhO31 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Download JSON data for comfort noise meaning in English (1.1kB)

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "comfort noise (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synthetic background noise used in radio and wireless communications to fill the artificial silence in a transmission resulting from voice activity detection or from the audio clarity of modern digital lines."
      ],
      "id": "en-comfort_noise-en-noun-LptJhO31",
      "links": [
        [
          "Synthetic",
          "synthetic"
        ],
        [
          "background",
          "background"
        ],
        [
          "noise",
          "noise"
        ],
        [
          "radio",
          "radio"
        ],
        [
          "wireless",
          "wireless"
        ],
        [
          "communication",
          "communication"
        ],
        [
          "artificial",
          "artificial"
        ],
        [
          "silence",
          "silence"
        ],
        [
          "transmission",
          "transmission"
        ],
        [
          "voice",
          "voice"
        ],
        [
          "activity",
          "activity"
        ],
        [
          "detection",
          "detection"
        ],
        [
          "audio",
          "audio"
        ],
        [
          "clarity",
          "clarity"
        ],
        [
          "digital",
          "digital"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "comfort tone"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "comfort noise"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "comfort noise"
}
{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "comfort noise (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English uncountable nouns"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synthetic background noise used in radio and wireless communications to fill the artificial silence in a transmission resulting from voice activity detection or from the audio clarity of modern digital lines."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Synthetic",
          "synthetic"
        ],
        [
          "background",
          "background"
        ],
        [
          "noise",
          "noise"
        ],
        [
          "radio",
          "radio"
        ],
        [
          "wireless",
          "wireless"
        ],
        [
          "communication",
          "communication"
        ],
        [
          "artificial",
          "artificial"
        ],
        [
          "silence",
          "silence"
        ],
        [
          "transmission",
          "transmission"
        ],
        [
          "voice",
          "voice"
        ],
        [
          "activity",
          "activity"
        ],
        [
          "detection",
          "detection"
        ],
        [
          "audio",
          "audio"
        ],
        [
          "clarity",
          "clarity"
        ],
        [
          "digital",
          "digital"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "comfort tone"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "comfort noise"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "comfort noise"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.