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touch-tone
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touch-tone also touch·tone (tchtn)
adj.
Of, relating to, or being a telephone with which the user places calls by pressing pushbuttons that generate and transmit tones of differing pitch, these tones corresponding to the digits of the number being called.
n.
A touch-tone telephone.

touch-tone
adj
(Electronics & Computer Science / Telecommunications) of or relating to a telephone dialling system in which each of the buttons pressed generates a tone of a different pitch, which is transmitted to the exchange
Translations
touch-tone [ˈtʌtʃtəʊn] ADJ (Telec) → digital, por tonos


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Contact centers that seek to improve their customer experience now have the option of replacing traditional keypad or touchtone interactive menu operations with the most natural form of human interaction -- speech.
The Touchtone telephone payment system, partnership between the council and HBS, is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
When the proper touchtone command is entered from the apartment, a door strike can be activated.
 
 
 
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