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Today an electronic version with a slimline screen is used to transmit this information, but it still rolls by in a way that is broadly similar to the visualisations of some ticker tape synesthetes. · The way in which the words appear is consistent for each ticker taper, but the font, colour and other characteristics of the photisms can vary according to the type of voice of the person speaking, their accent, the emotion they put across, the volume, if they are singing rather than talking, etc. · P ossible variants that have been described are seeing ambient sounds as written or printed words in the air (the typical “Pow!” “Bam!” “Wham!” in comics), or seeing certain objects “labelled” with their corresponding name floating in space beside them.

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