How to verbally state $f(y\mid x)\;?$

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How do we verbally state: $\large f(y\mid x)\;?$

I'm familiar with $f(x)$ as "$f$ of $x$" and $f(x,y)$ as "$f$ of $x$ and $y$" (or $f$ of $x, y$), but what does the vertical line mean and how to state this verbally so that a screen reader would read it correctly?

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We read $f(y \ | \ x)$ as "f of y, given x." This is useful when we talk about conditional probability distributions.

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F of y given x? This is what I heard in probability