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by philsnow 1035 days ago
I'm regularly struck by how much of technical Japanese is literal transliterations of loanwords. In the diagram at https://github.com/w-okada/voice-changer#vc-client-%E3%81%A8... , I see "user", "client (browser)", Docker "container", "server", "Host" PC, "speaker".

... I don't know what the label says on the link between the client and server, though, the katakana is "bo i che n" and I can't think of what that transliterates to. Maybe it's a loanword that's not from English?

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Short for "voice (boi) changer (chen)"