English

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Etymology

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From voice +‎ -cast.

Noun

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voicecast (plural voicecasts)

  1. (dated) A voice broadcast.
    • 1960, Great Britain. Colonial Office, Report by His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the Council of the League of Nations on the Administration of Tanganyika Territory, page 74:
      Voicecasts from the territory's special representatives at the 26th Session of the Trusteeship Council were also successfully relayed over the Atlantic telephone cable to London, and thence by radio.
    • 1964, European Broadcasting Union, EBU Review: Programmes, Administration, Law, volume 83, page 22:
      A cabled despatch is better than nothing, but a voicecast of tolerable quality is preferable, and in certain types of story a voicecast with live or recorded actuality is best of all. Correspondents all have portable tape recorders.