Listen to, as a recording

Usage examples of playback.

Then individual playback equipment began to revolt, and the collective excreta really hit the propulsive turbine.

First Mandy dialed her own number and activated the playback on her answering machine.

Behind the first closed door was a windowless office, almost bare but for a utilitarian desk on which stood a printer and small photocopier, and, against the wall, a self-contained video playback unit and a stack of tapes.

Manor, Ken Cryer switched off the playback, rose from his swivel chair and stretched.

Counting taxes, that would be eight bucks and change for a complete digital recording playback device that contained enough nonvolatile memory to record ten seconds of audio at a capture rate of, he guessed, around 11 kilohertz.

Now Obie selected his starting point and the scene went into playback.

The Riirgaans and the Bursteeni and the Tchi all scurried off to their embassies, to pore over the playback, in the vain hope that their translation programs had succeeded in furthering their understanding another percentile point or two.

The state is produced by the playback of recorded data of events in the past, involving real people, real times, real places, real decisions, and real feelings.

Lauren was stunned into silence, her head running playbacks of that famous face in some of the files she had seen.

She slapped on the playback, turned up the volume, but he was caterwauling so loudly about Section 49 that he couldn't have heard it.

Kwon and Vale weren't anywhere within ten klicks of Henslowe at the moment, but with a simple disk recording plus Skyler's skillful hand on the playback selector any eavesdropping collies should be convinced a major attack was in progress.

The audio track, its pitch adjusted to run at just less than twice the standard playback speed, was part of a month-old newscast detailing potential military uses of a substance known as HsG, a biochemical governing the human skeletal growth factor.

Despite his remarkable store of personal knowledge he found himself having to halt the playback and refer constantly to his reference texts.

For half a minute, we heard only the hiss of unrecorded magnetic tape passing over the playback head.

Against the larger‑than‑life figures of Pia and Nayyar, kissing mangoes as they mouthed to playback music, the figure of a timorous, inadequately bearded man was seen, marching on to the stage beneath the screen, microphone in hand.