Among currently available apps are programs that read out Twitter updates and pick and choose radio stations.

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Her aunt, Lisa Moore, read out excerpts from the letter on BBC Radio Five Live last year.

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Many of them were in attendance at the Radio City Music Hall, cheering when his name was read out.

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The receiver then reassembles the signals using complex mathematical algorithms to sort out the jumbled radio waves so that they can be read easily.

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After his death, a friend read out a message from the dead man on a conservative radio station, Radio Courtoisie, where he used to broadcast.

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Most of the day, the mother sat in her room and read old books, while Aryeh Zelnik listened to the radio in his room and built airplanes out of light wood.

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