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The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
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voice / vois/ • n. 1. the sound produced in a person's larynx and uttered through the mouth, as speech or song: Meg raised her voice| a worried tone of voice. ∎ an agency by which a particular point of view is expressed or represented: once the proud voice of middle-class conservatism, the paper had fallen on hard times. ∎ [in sing.] the right to express an opinion: the new electoral system gives minority parties a voice. ∎ a particular opinion or attitude expressed: a dissenting voice. ∎ the ability to speak or sing: she'd lost her voice. ∎ (usu. voices) the supposed utterance of a guiding spirit, typically giving instructions or advice. ∎ the distinctive tone or style of a literary work or author: she had strained and falsified her literary voice.
2. Mus. the range of pitch or type of tone with which a person sings, such as soprano or tenor. ∎ a vocal part in a composition. ∎ a constituent part in a fugue. ∎ each of the notes or sounds able to be produced simultaneously by a musical instrument (esp. an electronic one) or a computer. ∎ (in an electronic musical instrument) each of a number of preset or programmable tones.
3. Phonet. sound uttered with resonance of the vocal cords (used in the pronunciation of vowels and certain consonants).
4. Gram. a form or set of forms of a verb showing the relation of the subject to the action: the passive voice.
• v. [tr.] 1. express (something) in words: get teachers to voice their opinions on important subjects.
2. [usu. as adj.] (voiced) Phonet. utter (a speech sound) with resonance of the vocal cords (e.g., b, d, g, v, z).
3. Mus. regulate the tone quality of (organ pipes).
PHRASES: give voice to allow (a particular emotion, opinion, or point of view) to be expressed. ∎ allow (a person or group) to express their emotions, opinion, or point of view.in voice in proper vocal condition for singing or speaking: the soprano is in marvelous voice.with one voice in complete agreement; unanimously.DERIVATIVES: voiced adj. [in comb.] deep-voiced.voic·er n. (in sense 3 of the verb ).ORIGIN: Middle English: from Old French vois, from Latin vox, voc-.
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VOICE DIALING TECHNOLOGY CONTRIBUTES TO SAFER DRIVING.
Newspaper article from: Audiotex Update; 6/1/2002; 700+ words
; Preferred Voice, Inc. (BULLETIN BOARD: PFVI), a network...Clovis, New Mexico, has debuted a new voice dialing technology to their 60,000 customers...of the company's 12 retail locations. Voice dialing allows a subscriber access to a...
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Voice Business Outsourcing: Creating a leasing option for speech recognition technology.
M2 Presswire; 2/18/2003; 700+ words
; ...February 2003-Research and Markets: Voice Business Outsourcing: Creating a leasing...customers or partners able to determine which voice business outsourcer meets their outsourcing...report analyzes the market for outsourced voice business. It examines the existing and...
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Voices of America // Meet the Chicagoans behind the microphones
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 3/15/1992; ; 700+ words
; ...They're the people who do the voice-overs on TV and radio commercials. "They paint the picture with their voices and not their faces," says Lynne Hamilton, a Chicago voice-over agent. Their voices come in all shapes and sizes, but...
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Voice on the Go's Mobile Phone Application Now Available Through the MobiHand Network.
PR Newswire; 11/13/2007; 700+ words
; TORONTO, Nov. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Voice on the Go Inc., provider of mobile voice solutions today announced that Voice on the Go(R) is available through the nearly 100 channels within the MobiHand network. MobiHand, with its network of...
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Voice recognition moves to forefront of enhanced-services offerings.
Magazine article from: RCR Wireless News; 11/6/2000; ; 700+ words
; Consumers prefer voice-driven apps If you were to ask most wireless...have moved the cellular phone away from a voice-centric device and toward an all-purpose...focusing the phone on what it does best--voice. Specifically, voice-recognition technology...
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VOICES.COM OPENS WEB SERVICE API FOR VOICE APP DEVELOPERS.
Newspaper article from: Audiotex Update; 7/1/2008; 700+ words
; ...well as the diversity of voice over requests. Voices.com Web Service API...accounts, post jobs seeking voice over talent, search for voices, and complete the hiring...within a matter of hours. Voice actors at Voices.com represent over 100...
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Voice quality in enterprise VOIP systems: contrary to popular belief, low-bandwidth codecs may yield poor voice quality.(VOICE-DATA CONVERGENCE)
Magazine article from: Business Communications Review; 2/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...finally delivered on the promise of converged voice and data applications over a single network...needed by real-time applications such as voice and video. As a result, commercial and government enterprises are turning to voice over IP (VOIP) as the preferred solution...
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Voice over DSL.(Technology Information)
Magazine article from: Communications News; 4/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; Changing the economics of voice and data delivery. This year, the potential of voice-over-DSL (VoDSL) technology will enable CLECs to provide multiline voice-telephony services to customers and reselling voice access to long-distance...
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Voice over DSL begins to take hold; Technology could be a cost saver for small and midsize corporations.(Company Business and Marketing)
Magazine article from: Network World; 9/18/2000; ; 700+ words
; Service providers touting voice over DSL as a cost-saving tool for...roll the technology out commercially. Voice over DSL is less expensive for competitive...plain old telephone service (POTS) voice because with voice over DSL, up to 16...
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Voices of experience: Actors provide familiar sound for commercials, videos and more.
Newspaper article from: Blade (Toledo, OH); 4/16/2006; 700+ words
; ...the people behind the voices that speak to us every...and more. While the voice-over talent pool includes...different attitudes with my voice," she explained via...Cali of Akron -- who voices the Toledo Symphony...business about being a voice. It's a business about...
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Voice Messaging
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Business and Finance, 2nd ed.
VOICE MESSAGING Voice messaging is a computerized method of storing and manipulating spoken...accessible to users from any touch-tone phone twenty-four hours a day. A voice-messaging system can be easily accessed by local, remote, or mobile...
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voice
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
...system gives minority parties a voice. ∎ a particular...attitude expressed: a dissenting voice. ∎ the...speak or sing: she'd lost her voice . ∎ (usu. voices ) the supposed utterance of...
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Voice Alteration, Electronic
Book article from: World of Forensic Science
...evidence containing altered voices. Crude voice alteration can be achieved...another person. Electronic voice alteration can be subtle...almost incomprehensible voices of anonymous witnesses. This type of voice alteration is actually a...
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Voice Analysis
Book article from: World of Forensic Science
Voice Analysis Voice analysis was first used in World...on the fact that each person's voice has a unique quality that can be...unknowingly leave recordings of the voices on the telephone, voice mail, answering machines, or hidden...
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VOICE
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...have common features: adult male voices are usually ‘deeper...than women's and children's voices; the voices of people from the same region and...of a particular accent. Kinds of voice can be categorized according to...
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