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VOICE QUALITY

Specialty Definition: VOICE QUALITY

DomainDefinition

Health

Voice quality is that component of speech which gives the primary distinction to a given speaker's voice when pitch and loudness are excluded. It involves both phonatory and resonatory characteristics. Some of the descriptions of voice quality are harshness, breathiness and nasality. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: VOICE QUALITY

English words defined with "VOICE QUALITY": parrotlike. (references)
Specialty definitions using "VOICE QUALITY": IP TelephonySpeech Production Measurement. (references)

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Commercial Usage: VOICE QUALITY

DomainTitle

Books

  • The Phonetic Description of Voice Quality (reference)

  • Voice quality : a classified research bibliography (reference)

  • Voice Quality Measurement (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

High Tech

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: VOICE QUALITY

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

The speech-language pathologist evaluates the patient's voice and voice quality. (references)

Changes in voice quality, such as loss of volume or pitch, may also be noticeable. (references)

The size and shape of these cavities, along with the size and shape of the vocal folds, help to determine voice quality. (references)

Business

As voice transmission is a monopoly of BTC until the end of 2002, Internet Protocol (IP) can be used by telecommunications operators for voice transmission under the Telecommunications Act as long as their voice quality is at a lower level than voice quality which BTC provides. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: VOICE QUALITY

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

voice quality

15

voice quality testing

11
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: VOICE QUALITY

Language Translations for "VOICE QUALITY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

talekvalitet, stemmeklang, stemme (voice, vote). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

stemkwaliteit, spraakkwaliteit. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

puheäänen laatu. (various references)

   

French

  

qualité de la voix. (various references)

   

German

  

Stimmqualitaet, Stimmeigenschaft, Sprechqualität. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ποιότητα φωνής. (various references)

   

Italian

  

qualità della voce. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oicevay alityquay

   

Portuguese

  

qualidade da voz. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

calidad de la palabra. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

ses kalitesi (quality, voice). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: VOICE QUALITY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: equivocality.

Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-i-l-o-q-t-u-v-y"

-2 letters: coequality.

-3 letters: coevality, equivocal, loquacity.

-4 letters: actively, equality, locative, outcavil, velocity, vocality.

-5 letters: acolyte, acutely, aliquot, aloetic, ciliate, cliquey, coequal, lacquey, liquate, outlive, ovality, ovately, ovulate, quality, quietly, tequila, uveitic, vacuity, vacuole, victual, vilayet, violate, voltaic.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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