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Definition: Voice |
VoiceNoun1. The distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech; "A shrill voice sounded behind us". 2. The sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract; "a singer takes good care of his voice"; "the giraffe cannot make any vocalizations". 3. A sound suggestive of a vocal utterance; "the noisy voice of the waterfall"; "the incessant voices of the artillery". 4. Expressing in coherent verbal form; "the articulation of my feelings" or "I gave voice to my feelings". 5. A means or agency by which something is expressed or communicated; "the voice of the law"; "the Times is not the voice of New York"; "conservatism has many voices". 6. Something suggestive of speech in being a medium of expression; "the wee small voice of conscience"; "the voice of experience"; "he said his voices told him to do it". 7. (metonymy) a singer; "he wanted to hear trained voices sing it". 8. An advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose; "the meeting was attended by spokespersons for all the major organs of government". 9. The ability to speak; "he lost his voice". 10. : (linguistics) the grammatical relation (active or passive) of the grammatical subject of a verb to the action that the verb denotes. 11. : the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music; "he tried to sing the tenor part". Verb1. Give voice to; "He voiced his concern". 2. Utter with vibrating vocal chords. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "voice" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Voice vt. To phone someone, as opposed to emailing them or connecting in talk mode. "I'm busy now; I'll voice you later.". Source: Jargon File. |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of hearing voices, denotes pleasant reconciliations, if they are calm and pleasing; high-pitched and angry voices, signify disappointments and unfavorable situations. To hear weeping voices, shows that sudden anger will cause you to inflict injury upon a friend. If you hear the voice of God, you will make a noble effort to rise higher in unselfish and honorable principles, and will justly hold the admiration of high-minded people. For a mother to hear the voice of her child, is a sign of approaching misery, perplexity and grievous doubts. To hear the voice of distress, or a warning one calling to you, implies your own serious misfortune or that of some one close to you. If the voice is recognized, it is often ominous of accident or illness, which may eliminate death or loss. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Fine Arts | To adjust for producing the proper musical sounds; regulate the tone (to -- the pipes of an organ). Source: European Union. (references) |
Medicine | The sounds produced by the vocal cords and given quality and timbre by resonance. Source: European Union. (references) |
Public Administration | Digitized voice technology that lends itself to T1 and ISDN applications(1). Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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Grammatical voice is a verb-form that indicates the relationship between the subject and the action expressed by the verb.In English not only can one say I wrote this page, but one can also say This page was written by me. The former sentence is said to be in the active voice and the latter in the passive voice. In other words, they can be summarized as:
The subject and the direct object switch places. The direct object ("this page") becomes the subject in the passive sentence.
- Active: A does B
- Passive: B is done by A
Some languages (e.g. Sanskrit and Classical Greek) have a so-called "middle voice". An intransitive verb that appears active but expresses a passive action characterizes the English middle voice. For example, in "The casserole cooked in the oven", "cooked" is syntactically active but semantically passive, putting it in the middle voice. Many deponent verbs in Latin are also survivals of the Indo-European middle voice; many of these in turn survive as obligatory reflexive verbs in French or Spanish.
Some languages have even more grammatical voices. For example, in Classic Mongolian there are five voices: active, passive, causative, reciprocal and cooperative.
Some people consider it bad practice to use the passive voice in English, because it obscures the subject. There is a difference in approach between the UK and the USA. In the UK passive voice is commonly used. In the USA people commonly use the active voice. This is especially true regarding formal and business communications.
Of course, there is still one situation where the passive will always be popular in any country. Many people find it far more appealing to write the second of these two sentences:
The passive voice is very often found in academic and journalistic writings. The passive voice is also used to avoid "blame". For example, "The bombing was attributed to unknown freedom fighters."
- I made mistakes.
- Mistakes were made.
See also:
- E-Prime
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Speech coding is the compression of speech (into a code) for transmission using audio signal processing and speech processing techniques.The two most important applications using speech coding are mobile phones and internet phones.
The techniques used in speech coding are similar to that in audio compression and audio coding where knowledge in psychoacoustics is used to transmit only data that is relevant to the human auditory system. For example, in narrow-band speech coding, only information in the frequency band 400Hz to 3500Hz is transmitted but the reconstructed signal is still adequate for intelligibility.
However, speech coding differs from audio coding in that there is a lot more statistical information available about the properties of speech. In addition, some auditory information which is relevant in audio coding can be unnecessary in the speech coding context. In speech coding, the most important criterion is always preservation of intelligibility of speech, with a constrained amount of transmitted data.
It should be emphasised that the intelligibility of speech includes, besides the actual literal content, also speaker identity, emotions, intonation, timbre etc. that are all important for perfect intelligibility.
In addition, most speech applications require low coding delay, as long coding delays interfere with speech interaction.
The most common speech coding scheme is Code-Excited Linear Predictive (CELP) coding, which is used for example in the GSM standard. In CELP, the modelling is divided in two stages, a linear predictive stage that models the spectral envelope and code-book based model of the residual of the linear predictive model.
In addition to the actual speech coding of the signal, it is often necessary to use channel coding for transmission, to avoid losses due to transmission errors. Usually, speech coding and channel coding methods have to be chosen in pairs in order to get the best overal coding results.
The Speex project is an attempt to create a free software speech coder, unemcumbered by patent restrictions.
Major subfields:
See also: Digital signal processing, Speech processing, Audio signal processing, Data compression, Telecommunication, Mobile phone, Psychoacoustic model, Vector quantization.
- Wide-band speech coding create an article on this topic
- GSM
- NMT
- Narrow-band speech coding
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The telephone or phone is a telecommunications device designed to transmit speech by means of electric signals. It was invented around 1860 by Antonio Meucci who called it teletrophone, as recently recognized by the US Congress in the resolution 269 on June 15th, 2002. Before that resolution it was generally attributed to Alexander Graham Bell. The first recorded public demonstration of Meucci's invention took place in 1860, and had a description of it published in New York's Italian language newspaper. In 1861 Philipp Reis presented a machine for electronic voice transmission.
The very early constructions of the telephone was based on sound transportation through air rather than generated electric signals from speech. According to a letter in the Peking Gazette, in 968, the Chinese inventor Kung-Foo-Whing invented the thumtsein, which probably transported the speech through pipes. Even the early inventions made by Meucci et al transported the sound through pipes.
The history of additional inventions and improvements of the electrical telephone includes the carbon microphone (later replaced by the electret microphone now used in almost all telephone transmitters), the manual switchboard, the rotary dial, the automatic telephone exchange, the computerized telephone switch, Touch Tone(R) dialing (DTMF), the digitization of sound using different coding techniques including pulse code modulation or PCM (which is commonly used for .WAV files and on compact disks).
Newer systems include ISDN, DSL, cell phone (mobile) systems, digital cell phone systems, cordless telephones and the third generation cell phone systems that promise to allow high-speed packet data transfer.
The industry was early on divided into telephone equipment manufacturers and telephone network operators (telcos), the latter often holding a national monopoly. In the United States, the Bell System was vertically integrated: it fully or partially owned the telephone companies that provided service to about 80% of the telephones in the country and also owned Western Electric, which manufactured or purchased virtually all the equipment and supplies used by the local telephone companies. The Bell System divested itself of the local telephone companies in 1984 in order to settle an antitrust suit brought against it by the United States Department of Justice.
The first transatlantic telephone call was between New York City and London and occurred on January 7, 1927.
Telephone equipment manufacturers
Alcatel, Ericsson, Huawei, Lucent, Marconi, Motorola, Nokia, Nortel, Samsung, Siemens AG, Sony Ericsson
Telephone equipment research labs
Bell Labs
Telephone operating companies
Some Telco names (in alphabetic order) include: AT&T, BC TEL, Belgacom, Bell, Bell Canada, British Telecom, Cable and Wireless, Deutsche Telekom, GTE, IDT, ITT, MCI, NTL, NTT, SBC Communications, Telefonica, Teleglobe, Telewest, Telstra, Telia, TELUS, Verizon
Land-line based phone systems and fixed telephony
The network that connects most phones together is known as the PSTN (public switched telephone network).
Fixed phone lines are usually copper wirelines which form a circuit between the subscriber and the exchange, although some recent installations may use optical fiber for part of the distance. An analog line typically uses frequencies of 0-3.5 kHz, with frequencies higher than this filtered at the exchange. The analog speech signals are carried over the digital backbone network as a stream of digitally encoded samples at a sample rate of 8 kHz. The frequences above 4 kHz can be utilized for DSL connections.
A line is a single voice communications circuit between the subscriber and the central switching office. A trunk is a single circuit between central offices and may be analog or digital and is transmitted via copper, microwave, or fiber optics. A trunk group is a grouping of identical trunk circuits between two specific central offices.
Automatic telephone systems generally use numeric addresses, more commonly known as telephone numbers. The addressing system often distinguishes local, long-distance and international calls. Local calls are initiated by dialling the local number. A long-distance number is indicated by a long-distance prefix (CCITT recommends "0") followed by area code and a number local to that area. International phone calls require an international prefix (CCITT recommends "00") followed by area code and local number. US and Canadian phone systems use "1" as the long distance prefix and "011" for international prefix. See country calling codes for access codes to international telephone services.
Larger companies and organizations often employ a PABX (Private Automatic Branch Exchange). This is a telephone switch that defines its own local phone number range, which is commonly embedded in a public local phone number range. Some of the largest companies now even have their own internal telephone networks across the country, or even throughout the world, with limited gateways into the PSTN.
Most PSTN systems use analog communication between individual phones and the local switch. If digital communication is used for an individual phone, the system used is usually ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network).
Between switches in the PSTN, most signalling is now digital using Signalling System 7 ("SS7").
Cordless telephones
Cordless telephones consist of a base unit that connects to the land-line system and also communicates with remote handsets by low power radio. This permits use of the handset from any location within range of the base. Initially, cordless phones used the 1.7 MHz range to communicate between between base and handset. Because of quality and range problems, these units were soon superseded by systems that used frequency modulation in higher frequency ranges (49 MHz, 900 MHz, 2.4 GHz, and 5.8 GHz). The range of modern cordless phones is normally on the order of a few hundred yards.
Wireless phone systems
Most wireless phone systems are cell-structured. Wireless communication is used between the handsets and the cell. Communication between cells can be wireless, or over ground cables. When an active handset moves from one cell to another, the call is automatically transferred to the next cell without interrupting the call.
There are now multiple standards for common carrier wireless telephony, often with multiple incompatable standards used in the same nation:
- First generation - Analog
- marine and mobile radio telephony
- AMPS
- CDPD data service on AMPS
- NMTS
- Second generation (2G) - Digital
- CDMA IS-95A
- GSM, (different frequencies for different continents: see GSM article)
- iDEN
- TDMA IS-136
- 2.5G
- CDMA IS-95B
- GPRS
- EDGE
- i-Mode
- Third generation (3G)
- CDMA 2000
- UMTS, also called W-CDMA
- TD-SCDMA
Related articles
ADSL, AIOD leads, Answering machine, ANAC, Area code, Assistive Technology, Automatic redial, Basic exchange telecommunications radio service, Bomb threat, Call center, Call originator, Caller, Caller ID, Camp-on busy signal, Computer telephony integration (CTI), Crank call, Customer premises equipment, Deaf, Demon dialing, Dial Tone, Digital subscriber line, Direct distance dialing, Dual tone multi frequency, Emergency telephone number, End instrument, Fax, Foreign exchange service, Help desk, Infrastructure, Interactive voice response (IVR), IP Telephony, Line, Local loop Long-distance operator, Party line, Modem Payphone, Plain Old Telephone Service (POTS), Phone Phone phreaking, Photophone, Phreaking, Post office Prank call, Private line, Red telephone box, Ringer equivalency number, Ringing signal, Rural radio service, Smartphone, TAPI, Telautograph, Telecommunications Device for the Deaf (TDD or TTY), Telemarketing, Telephone booth, Telephone directory, Telephone exchange Telephone tapping Telegraph, Telemarketing, Videotex, Voice over Internet Protocol, Voicemail, War dialing, Wide Area Telephone Service, Wireless network, Wi-Fi 610 (telephone), 431A
US-specific
Federal Standard 1037C-Glossary of telephony terms, Federal Regulations - Part 68, Modification of Final Judgment, Local access and transport area (LATA), Local exchange carrier, Interexchange carrier, Regional Bell operating company, Competitive local exchange carrier
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The word voice has many definitions:
See also
- The sound made by a person using the vocal folds for talking and singing (singers use the voice as an instrument for creating music). The tone of voice may show that a sentence is a question, even if it grammatically is not, and shows emotions such as anger, surprise, happiness; in a request the tone reveals much about how much one wants something, and whether it is asking a favor or more like an order; the tone of saying e.g. "I am sorry" says a lot: it may vary from begging for forgiveness to "I have the right to do this even if you do not like it".
- A section of a choir or other musical ensemble that sings or plays the same part.
- The tone of a piece of writing, influenced by its point of view.
- In phonetics and phonology, a phone or phoneme is said to be voiced if it is produced with the vocal folds vibrating. See voice (phonetics).
- In grammar, voice is a verb-form that indicates the relationship between the subject and the action expressed by the verb. See grammatical voice
- vocal loading
- voice analysis
- voice disorders
External links
- DICT Development Group entry on "voice"
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
VOICE | English | Validating OSA in Industrial CIM Environments | Computing, European Union |
| vo | English | Voice | Military & Defense, Medicine |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: VoiceSynonyms: articulation (n), interpreter (n), part (n), phonation (n), representative (n), spokesperson (n), vocalisation (n), vocalization (n), vox (n), sound (v), vocalise (v), vocalize (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: devoice (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Government | Election, poll, ballot, vote, referendum, recall, initiative, voice, suffrage, plumper, cumulative vote, plebiscitum, plebiscite, vox populi; electioneering; voting; Verb: elective franchise; straight ticket; opinion poll, popularity poll. |
Judgment | Plebiscite, voice, casting vote; vote; (choice); opinion; (belief); good judgment; (wisdom). |
Phrase | Verb: express, phrase; word, word it; give words to, give expression to; voice; arrange in words, clothe in words, put into words, express by words; couch in terms; find words to express; speak by the card; call, denominate, designate, dub. |
Publication | Verb: publish; make public, make known; (information); speak of, talk of; broach, utter; put forward; circulate, propagate, promulgate; spread, spread abroad; rumor, diffuse, disseminate, evulugate; put forth, give forth, send forth; emit, edit, get out; issue; bring before the public, lay before the public, drag before the public; give out, give to the world; put about, bandy about, hawk about, buzz about, whisper about, bruit about, blaze about; drag into the open day; voice. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Voice |
| English words defined with "voice": active voice ♦ baritone voice, Bass voice ♦ Chest voice, Concrete sound or movement of the voice ♦ head voice ♦ passive voice ♦ singing voice, small voice, Stress of voice ♦ tenor voice, tone of voice ♦ voice of conscience ♦ wee small voice, With one voice. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "voice": Bass Voice ♦ Clear Voice ♦ Digital Simultaneous Voice and Data ♦ go voice ♦ Interactive Voice Response ♦ Lift up the Voice ♦ speaker independent voice recognition, Stentorophonic Voice ♦ voice connecting arrangement, voice digitisation, voice digitization, Voice Disorders, voice in, voice mail, voice message service, Voice over IP, VOICE PATHOLOGIST, Voice Quality, voice recognition. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "voice": Vox. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I'll tell you when your voice changes, junior (On the Town; writing credit: Adolph Green and Betty Comden) This is the Voice of Doom calling (The Philadelphia Story; writing credit: Donald Ogden Stewart. Based on the play by Philip Barry.) In fact, they are so alike in voice and appearance, that they are mistaken for dwarf men. (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh) Intercom voice Who is this (Episode IV: A New Hope; writing credit: George Lucas.) Yours could become an important voice in the new order, second only to my own (Superman; writing credit: Jerry Siegel; Joe Shuster) | |
Lyrics | But one voice was heard (One Voice; performing artist: Billy Gilman) The gentle voice that talks to you won't talk forever (All That She Wants; performing artist: Ace Of Base) It's the voice of hope, it's the voice of peace, (From a Distance; performing artist: Bette Midler) They hear a voice in the hall outside (An Innocent Man; performing artist: Billy Joel) When I saw through the voice of a trusted friend (Run-Around; performing artist: Blues Traveler) | |
Clever | Has Leadership Qualities: Is tall or has a loud voice. (references; author: unknown) Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice. (references; author: unknown) How to act insane: Page yourself over the intercom. Don't disguise your voice. (references; author: unknown) Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes, courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says, "I'll try again tomorrow. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Voice of La Raza (1972) Flesh and Voice Image (1970) The Human Voice (1967) Voice of the Hurricane (1964) The Voice of Firestone (1962) | |
Song Titles | Ozone Hole, The (performing artist: Voice In Time) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Forty-second anniversary of voice writing, Ediphone convention of 1919;1919;{10.112/16}. |  | Caption: Talking Doll Unclothed, Voice Mechanism Alongside; West Orange, NJ; May 20, 1940; {29.140/4} (jpg). |
 | Make A Choice Have A Voice : Be Drug Free. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | An Inner Voice : Tells You Not to Drink. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | View of the ship's forward superstructure, taken after overhaul at the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington, 29 August 1933. Note newly installed machine gun "bathtub" atop Omaha foremast, rangefinders and other fire control facilities on and about the mast, voice tubes running down from the masthead, 6"/53 guns in casemate mountings, and Battle Efficiency "E" painted on the pilothouse. Credit: NAVY. |  | Closeup view of the ship's port side bridge wing, showing her insignia, circa 1943-44. The design is based on the slogan of Cabot's first Commanding Officer, Captain Malcolm F. Schoeffel: "Up Mohawks, At 'Em!". "Mohawk" was the ship's voice radio call sign at the time. Credit: NAVY. |
 | The American Marseillaise, or voice of the people. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | What's the matter? Miss O'Leary asked : her voice sounded hurt. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | A luckless bull-frog lost his voice while talking in his sleep, and now he'll never fish it out -- his voice it is so deep. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | From under the mink coat -- a voice. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Master's Voice" by João Estêvão A. De Freitas Commentary: "My gramophone symbol." | "Dawn at Marsan Hills" by Luca Pellanda Commentary: "I wake up at 4.15 a.m. , I taked my coolpix 4500+Nikon F60+tripod, and I have been climbed the "Marsan Hills" with my mountain bike.The loneliness of the morning and the voice of the nature have inspired this photo." |
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| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
 | Warbling voice. | | Electronically garbled voice. |
| Man speaking the word "almost" with a disappointed tone of voice. | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Aristotle | No voice is wholly lost that is the voice of many men. |
Boyes | Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat. |
Charles Baudelaire | Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest. |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | The human voice is the organ of the soul. |
Jean de La BruyFre | The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love. |
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller | What the inner voice says will not disappoint the hoping soul. |
Nathaniel Hawthorne | She poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of her spirit. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | A man's style is his mind's voice. Wooden minds, wooden voices. |
Shakespeare | Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgement. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | To ask how you may be guarded from harm, or injury, on that side where the strongest hand is to do it, is presently the voice of faction and rebellion: as if when men quitting the state of nature entered into society, they agreed that all of them but one, should be under the restraint of laws, but that he should still retain all the liberty of the state of nature, increased with power, and made licentious by impunity. (Second Treatise of Government) |
US Declaration of Independence | 1776 | They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. (reference) |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | We do not here refer to that literature which, in every great modern revolution, has always given voice to the demands of the proletariat, such as the writings of Babeuf and others. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | A little quickness of voice there is which rather hurts the ear. |
Alice in Wonderland | Carroll, Lewis | He looked at Alice and tried to speak, but, for a minute or two, sobs choked his voice. |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | The voice was soft and gentle |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | In this state, the voice of the preacher thundered remorselessly, but unavailingly, upon her ears |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The man replied in a voice which he endeavoured to render indifferent, and in which there was a slight tremulousness |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | He had a quiet toneless voice and urbane manners and on a finger of his plump clean hand he displayed at moments a signet ring |
Something Wicked This Way Comes | Ray Bradbury | Dad's voice was a midnight school, teaching deep fathom hours, and the subject was life |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | Thy voice is thunder, but thy looks are humble |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Taking orders in a soft low voice, calling them to the cook with a screech like a peacock |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | But when he heard my voice, and found what I delivered to be regular and rational, he could not conceal his astonishment |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Is soothed by your voice. (references) | |
Imitates his/her own voice. (references) | ||
Becomes scared by a loud voice. (references) | ||
Business | Zamtel has VSAT services for data, fax and voice. (references) | |
Development of voice networks has also been massive. (references) | ||
Voice telephone services will be liberalized by 2003 at the latest. (references) | ||
Children | Belgium | Children have the right to a voice in court cases that affect them, such as divorce proceedings. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Hong Kong | Persons speak freely to the media, and many use the media to voice their views. (references) |
Afghanistan | The Taliban radio station, the Voice of Shariat, broadcast religious programming and Taliban pronouncements. (references) | |
Economic History | Peru | Voice and data communications are generally reliable in Peru. (references) |
Philippines | The trade union movement is divided and rarely speaks with a single voice. (references) | |
Tunisia | Tunisia has long been a voice for moderation and realism in the Middle East. (references) | |
Human Rights | India | Under a Supreme Court ruling, the Chief Justice, in consultation with his colleagues, has a decisive voice in selecting judicial candidates. (references) |
Poland | Critics continue to voice concern that the procedure of vetting politicians may be unfair, in view of the likelihood that secret police records were subject to loss or tampering. (references) | |
Mali | Since 1994 the Government has held an annual Democracy and Human Rights Forum in December to which it has invited citizens to voice discontent and grievances against the Government publicly in the presence of the media and international human rights observers. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Congo | They usually are considered socially inferior and had little political voice. (references) |
Chile | A committee composed of representatives of indigenous groups participated in drafting the 1993 law that recognizes the ethnic diversity of the indigenous population and gives indigenous people a voice in decisions affecting their lands, cultures, and traditions. (references) | |
Ecuador | In the Amazon area, indigenous groups have lobbied the Government, enlisted the help of foreign and domestic NGO's, and mounted protests (including kidnaping oil workers and tourists), in their attempts to win a share of oil revenues and a voice in exploitation and development decisions. (references) | |
Minorities | Laos | The Government encourages the preservation of minority cultures and traditions; however, due to their remote location and inaccessibility, minority tribes have little voice in government decisions affecting their lands and the allocation of natural resources. (references) |
Political Economy | Syria | The other political parties exist primarily to voice approval for Ba'th Party policies and in no way constitute political opposition. (references) |
GREECE | Greece has been granted a derogation until January 1, 2001, to open its voice telephony and the respective networks to other EU competitors. (references) | |
Political Rights | South Africa | The NCOP, created to give a greater voice to provincial interests, is required to approve legislation that involves shared national and provincial competencies according to a schedule in the Constitution and to concur on other legislation. (references) |
Travel | Australia | Services to businesses include Internet access, ISDN, voice messaging, and facsimile. (references) |
Canada | All forms of communication and transmission are possible, including voice, text, data, and video. (references) | |
Women | East Timor | The unit provides training to women entering public service and it attempts to ensure women have a voice in the new government and civil society structures. (references) |
Worker Rights | Austria | In practice trade unions have an important and independent voice in the political, social, and economic life of the country. (references) |
Austria | At the center of the system is the Joint Parity Commission for Wages and Prices, which has an important voice on major economic questions. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | EDITOR, n. A person who combines the judicial functions of Minos, Rhadamanthus and Aeacus, but is placable with an obolus; a severely virtuous censor, but so charitable withal that he tolerates the virtues of others and the vices of himself; who flings about him the splintering lightning and sturdy thunders of admonition till he resembles a bunch of firecrackers petulantly uttering his mind at the tail of a dog; then straightway murmurs a mild, melodious lay, soft as the cooing of a donkey intoning its prayer to the evening star. Master of mysteries and lord of law, high-pinnacled upon the throne of thought, his face suffused with the dim splendors of the Transfiguration, his legs intertwisted and his tongue a-cheek, the editor spills his will along the paper and cuts it off in lengths to suit. And at intervals from behind the veil of the temple is heard the voice of the foreman demanding three inches of wit and six lines of religious meditation, or bidding him turn off the wisdom and whack up some pathos. O, the Lord of Law on the Throne of Thought, A gilded impostor is he. Of shreds and patches his robes are wrought, His crown is brass, Himself an ass, And his power is fiddle-dee-dee. Prankily, crankily prating of naught, Silly old quilly old Monarch of Thought. Public opinion's camp-follower he, Thundering, blundering, plundering free. Affected, Ungracious, Suspected, Mendacious, Respected contemporaree! J.H. Bumbleshook |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | Make Kenneth Lay work the drive-thru at Jack In The Box so I can literally hear that lying bastard's voice coming out of a clown's mouth. |
Gary Sinise | I can't do the exact voice, or, you know, I'm not Rich Little or something like that. But what I can try to do is create the impression so that people believe. |
James Dobson | Certainly I've failed, if my goal was to be the sole voice that changes an entire nation. All I can do is try to influence those that I have access to. And I have tried to make a contribution there. |
Queen Rania of Jordan | Jordan has always been a country that's very committed to peace. It's been a voice of moderation in this region, and will continue to be that. We really hope that we can do whatever we can to bring some more stability to this region. |
Rush Limbaugh | I'm tired of being the only voice pointing this stuff out. |
Ted Olson | That's the message that Barbara had, and that's why it's so important for her voice to be out there, her smile to still be out there. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | Fellow Citizens, I am again called upon by the voice of my country to execute the functions of its Chief Magistrate. |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | Fulfilling that sacred duty, it is of equal importance that the movement between them be harmonious, and in case of any disagreement, should any such occur, a calm appeal be made to the people, and that their voice be heard and promptly obeyed. |
John Quincy Adams | 1825-1829 | To the voice of just complaint from any portion of their constituents the representatives of the States and of the people will never turn away their ears. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | We are aided by all who desire self-government and a voice in deciding their own affairs. |
Dwight Eisenhower | 1953-1961 | So we voice our hope and our belief that we can help to heal this divided world. |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | As the Apollo astronauts flew over the moon's gray surface on Christmas Eve, they spoke to us of the beauty of earth--and in that voice so clear across the lunar distance, we heard them invoke God's blessing on its goodness. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | I know it will be better for my children because my hands, my brains, my voice, and my vote can help make it happen. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | Instead, let us find our future in the human face of democracy, the human voice of individual liberty, the human hand of economic development. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Last year, he led an infantry unit that stopped mob of extremists from taking over a radio station that is a voice of democracy and tolerance in Bosnia. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Voice" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.84% of the time. "Voice" is used about 25,220 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.84% | 25,179 | 331 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.09% | 23 | 72,767 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.04% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.04% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Total | 100.00% | 25,220 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "voice" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Voice | Last name | 170 | 48,781 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "voice". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Clauda | N/A | Biblical | A lamentable voice |
| Kallai | N/A | Biblical | My voice |
| Kelaiah | N/A | Biblical | Voice of the Lord |
| Kolariah | N/A | Biblical | Voice of the Lord |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Norway | Voice ASA | USA | Active Voice Corporation |
| (more examples...) |
Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "voice": a voice in the wilderness ♦ abrasive voice ♦ Active voice ♦ at the top of one's voice ♦ automatic voice response system ♦ baritone voice ♦ Bass voice ♦ beery voice ♦ broken voice ♦ Casting voice ♦ chest voice ♦ clarion voice ♦ cockpit voice recorder ♦ common voice ♦ Concrete sound or movement of the voice ♦ data above voice ♦ data over voice ♦ data voice ♦ digital Simultaneous Voice and Data ♦ drown the voice ♦ falsetto voice ♦ find one's voice ♦ find voice in ♦ flat voice ♦ for one voice ♦ give one's voice for ♦ give voice to ♦ go voice ♦ grave voice ♦ gruff voice ♦ have a voice ♦ have a voice in ♦ head voice ♦ high pitched voice ♦ in a broken voice ♦ in a cracked voice ♦ in a faint voice ♦ in a high voice ♦ in a loud voice ♦ in a low voice ♦ in a singing voice ♦ in hushed voice ♦ in voice ♦ inbound voice sample parity ♦ interactive Voice Response ♦ keep your voice down! ♦ leading voice ♦ lift up one's voice ♦ lose one's voice because of a cold ♦ loud voice ♦ low voice ♦ lower the voice ♦ make one's voice heard ♦ male voice choir ♦ middle voice ♦ monotone voice ♦ musical voice ♦ mutter of voice ♦ negative voice ♦ not listen to the voice of the charmer ♦ one voice ♦ passive voice ♦ piping voice ♦ plaintive voice ♦ powerful voice ♦ raise one's voice ♦ raise one's voice against ♦ raucous voice ♦ rough voice ♦ seem to hear voice ♦ shout at the top of one's voice ♦ shriek at the top of one's voice ♦ singing voice ♦ small voice ♦ soft voice ♦ speak in a low voice ♦ speak in low voice ♦ speak in subdued voice ♦ speaker independent voice recognition ♦ stentorian voice ♦ strength of the voice ♦ stress of voice ♦ sugary voice ♦ sweet voice ♦ tenor voice ♦ the active voice ♦ the passive voice ♦ the voice of reason ♦ To lift up the voice ♦ tone of voice ♦ voice activity detection ♦ voice box ♦ voice call sign ♦ voice chess ♦ voice coil ♦ voice command ♦ voice communication ♦ voice connecting arrangement ♦ voice digitisation ♦ voice digitization ♦ Voice Disorders. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "voice": voice-activated, voice-based, voice-box, voice-bubble, voice-coil, voice-control, voice-controlled, voice-dynamic, voice-frequency, voice-grade, voice-groups, voice-independent, voice-leading, voice-line, voice-logging, voice-magnifying, voice-mail, voice-net, voice-only, voice-operated, voice-over, voice-overs, voice-parts, voice-pattern, voice-print, voice-printed, voice-quality, voice-recognition, voice-tone, voice-track, voice-training, voice-vote, voice-we, voice-wise. | |
Ending with "voice": male-voice, solo-voice. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
village voice | 2,006 | voice stream | 290 |
voice mail | 1,510 | one voice | 286 |
black voice | 1,447 | celebrity voice | 286 |
voice | 1,305 | voice lesson | 278 |
voice chat | 1,044 | voice mail message | 243 |
digital voice recorder | 942 | voice mail greeting | 232 |
voice talent | 782 | ibm via voice | 213 |
voice over talent | 722 | game voice | 207 |
voice over ip | 710 | electro voice | 205 |
voice recorder | 662 | text to voice | 177 |
voice recognition | 610 | funny voice mail message | 149 |
via voice | 563 | my sister voice | 145 |
voice over | 562 | yahoo voice chat | 144 |
voice changer | 538 | voice of the martyr | 144 |
voice overs | 524 | voice messaging | 143 |
free voice mail | 441 | voice mail system | 142 |
voice recognition software | 387 | funny voice mail | 137 |
citizen voice | 325 | guided by voice | 134 |
voice of america | 306 | voice chat room | 130 |
finding nemo voice | 305 | voice mail broadcasting | 122 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "voice"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | stem (vote). (various references) | |
Albanian | zë (bar, begin, block out, calk, catch, caulk, clog, close, engage, find, handle, have, hold, knead, occupy, part, plug up, seize, shut out, sound, take, tie up), shprehje (emphasis, exponent, expression, locution, loose, phrase, phrases, profession, term, transfusion, utterance), opinion (judgement, judgment, mind, notion, opinion, say, thinking, view), diatezë. (various references) | |
Arabic | صَوْت (sound), مقدرة غنائية, لفظ صوتا, عبر (across, act out, carry, clothe, come, come across, conceive, couch, cross, emit, enunciate, express, express oneself, fly, get through, give voice to, go over, jibe, jump, mouth, navigate, negotiate, pass, phrase, run, signify, slice through, span, swim, track, trans, transit, ventilate), صيغة الفعل (gerund, tense), صوت (cast a vote, phone, phoneme, push through, register, sound), دوزن آلة موسيقية. (various references) | |
Basque | ahots. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ставам изразител на, регулирам тона на, гласова партия, глас (part, tone, vote, vox), вокална партия, вокализирам (vocalize), озвучавам (dub, sound, vocalize), мнение (advice, belief, comment, counsel, esteem, estimation, idea, image, mind, notion, opinion, persuasion, pronouncement, sentence, sentiment, thinking, thought, thoughts, verdict, view), звучност (rotundity, rotundness, sonority, volume), залог (bail, forfeit, guaranty, hostage, mortgage, pawn, pledge, punt, security, stake, surety), акордирам, произнасям звучно, изразявам гласно (give voice to), израз (countenance, expression, locution, look, manifestation, phrase), давам израз на (articulate, vent). (various references) | |
Catalan | veu. (various references) | |
Chinese | 語音 , 聲音 (sound), 聲 (noise, sound, tone), 声音 (sound, Vocal, Vocally), 嗓子 (throat), 嗓 (throat). (various references) | |
Czech | vyjádřit (couch, embody, express, formulate, give, give voice to, profess, put, state, utter), znìlost, slovesný rod, mínìní (estimation, judgement, judgment, mind, opinion, sentiments, thought), hlas (part, parts, sound, tone, vote). (various references) | |
Danish | stemme (vote). (various references) | |
Dutch | stem (faction, party, side, vote). (various references) | |
Esperanto | voĉo (vote). (various references) | |
Faeroese | rødd (vote). (various references) | |
Farsi | واک (Waterfowl), وا, صوت (Phoneme), صدا (Call, Calling, Noise, Phone, Phoneme, Report, Sonance, Sound, Tingle, Tone, Toom, Vocal, Vocation, Yell), باصدابیان کردن . (various references) | |
Finnish | ääni (part, sound, tone, vote). (various references) | |
French | voix (vote). (various references) | |
Frisian | stim (vote), lûd (loud, sound, vote, vowel). (various references) | |
German | Stimme (call, mouthpiece, part, register, tones, vote). (various references) | |
Greek | φωνή (call, cry, sound, speech, volume, vox), εκφράζω (couch, embody, enunciate, express, indite, phrase, signify). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לתת בטוי ל- (vent), להשמיע קול, קול (noise, sound, thunder, vox), אפן הפועל. (various references) | |
Hungarian | hang (assertiveness, high voice, note, phonic, skirl, sonic, sound, speech, strain, tenor, tune, vote, vox), szavazat (poll, suffrage, vote). (various references) | |
Icelandic | rómur, rödd, mæli. (various references) | |
Indonesian | suara (burr, vote). (various references) | |
Irish | glór. (various references) | |
Italian | voce (entry, hearsay, item, part, rumor, rumour, say, tones, vote, word). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 声 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おんせい (sound), おんじょう (affection, compassion, kindliness, sound, warm heart), おんと, ボイス , ひとこえ (a cry, a shout), いっせい (a cry, a generation, a lifetime, a shout, all at once, all through life, an age, foreign immigrant, Japanese immigrant to USA, one existence, simultaneous, the era, the whole world, whole life), こえ (dung, fertiliser, manure, night soil). (various references) | |
Korean | 음향. (various references) | |
Malay | suara (sound). (various references) | |
Manx | goo (reputation, word), glaraghey, fwee, coraaghey (mouth, mouthing, pronounce, pronunciation, vocalize). (various references) | |
Norwegian | stemme. (various references) | |
Occitan | votz. (various references) | |
Papiamen | voto (vote), vos (vote), boto (boat, vote), bos (thunder, vote). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oicevay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | voz (vote, vox), voto (suffrage, vote, vow). (various references) | |
Romanian | vot (ballot, division, franchise, suffrage, vote, voting), voce (key, organ, part, sound), sufragiu (approval, suffrage, vote), sonoriza (vocalize), rosti (breathe, deliver, enunciate, lip, pass, pronounce, put up, say, sound, speak, spout, utter), pãrere (belief, conceit, conviction, dictum, estimate, estimation, hint, idea, judgement, mind, notion, opinion, paradox, say, thinking, verdict, view), opinie (apprehension, feeling, judgement, judgment, mind, opinion, regard, sentiment, statement, thinking, view), grai (faculty of speech, idiom, patois, power of speech, speech, tongue, word), glas (chimes, key, ringing, roar, sound, utterance), exprima (advance, breathe, conceive, connote, convey, couch, declare, express, formulate, have, indicate, look, phrase, put, represent, show, signify, sound, speak, state, utter), enunţa (enounce, enunciate, lay down, sound, state), diatezã, armoniza un tub de organ. (various references) | |
Russian | телефонная связь, голос (call, organ, voicing, vox), высказывать голос речевой, мнение (account, belief, expert evidence, mind, notion, opinion, say, sense, thinking, verdict, view). (various references) | |
Scottish | guth (syllable, v. ghuith; pl.+annan, vote, word). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | stanje (condition, habit, pass, repair, shape, state), glas (phone, report, reputation, rumor, rumour, sound, vote, vox). (various references) | |
Spanish | voz (lead, term, tones, vocals, vote, whisper, word). (various references) | |
Sranan | sten. (various references) | |
Swahili | sauti. (various references) | |
Swazi | lí-phîmbo. (various references) | |
Swedish | stämma (add up, attune, come out, dispose, figure, garnish, key, meeting, part, pitch, process, Square, stem, stems, sue, summons, tone, tune, vote), röst (pipe, tone, vote). (various references) | |
Tagalog | tínig, bóto, bóses. (various references) | |
Turkish | ses (acoustic, audio, call, clatter, cry, noise, phonic, phono-, shout, sonance, sonic, sono-, sound, speech, tone, vocal, vote, vox). (various references) | |
Turkmen | ses (sound), gyl. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | рупор (horn, megaphone, mouthpiece, speaking trumpet, speaking tube, trumpet), голос (call, organ, suffrage), висловлювати (bring out, discharge, enounce, express, give voice to, phrase, pronounce, put, say, set forth, signify, spit, term, vocalize), вимовляти (pronounce, speak, utter, vocalize), звук (note, sound), бути виразником, думка (advice, assessment, censure, idea, mind, notion, opinion, pronouncement, think, thinking, thought). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tiếng nói (said, say), tiếng (language, noise, repute, sound, tone), sự bày tỏ (delivery, development, profession, statement), lời nói (greasy, rodomontade, soapiness, verbalism), lời (gain, piece). (various references) | |
Welsh | lleferydd (speech, utterance), llef (cry), llais (vote). (various references) | |
Wolof | ndànk (slowly/in a low voice). (various references) | |
Yucatec | kal (neck, throat). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | gu. (various references) |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | phone. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | vôce, voce, vocem, vocemque, voces, voci, vocibus, vocis, vox, vox vocis, vox, vocis, voxque. (various references) |
| Avestan | 200-600 | vâxsh. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | gereord, reord. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Mark Chapter 9, Verse 7 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai egeneto nefelh episkiazousa autoiV kai hlqen fwnh ek thV nefelhV legousa outoV estin o uioV mou o agaphtoV autou akouete |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et statim circumspicientes neminem amplius viderunt nisi Iesum tantum secum |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | & syo lift hyo ofer-scadewede. & stefencom of þare lifte. & cwæð. þes is minleofeste sune ge-hereð hine. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And anoon thei bihelden aboute, and sayn no more ony man, but Jhesu oonli with hem. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And ther was a cloude that shaddowed the. And a voyce came out of the cloude sayinge: This is my dere sonne here him. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And there was a cloud that overshadowed them: and a voice came out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son: hear him. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And there was a cloud that overshadowed them: and a voice came out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son: hear him. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And a cloud came over them; and a voice came out of the cloud, saying, This is my dearly loved Son, give ear to him. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Mark Chapter 9, Verse 7 |
| Cebuano | Ug unya usa ka panganud mitabon kanila, ug gikan sa panganud migula ang usa ka tingog nga nag-ingon, "Mao kini ang akong Anak nga pinalangga;" patalinghugi ninyo siya." |
| Croatian | I pojavi se oblak i zasjeni ih, a iz oblaka se zaèu glas: "Ovo je Sin moj, Ljubljeni! Slušajte ga!" |
| Danish | Og der kom en Sky, som overskyggede dem; og en Røst kom fra Skyen: "Denne er min Søn, den elskede, hører ham!" |
| Dutch | En er kwam een wolk, die hen overschaduwde, en een stem kwam uit de wolk, zeggende: Deze is Mijn geliefde Zoon, hoort Hem! |
| Finnish | Ja tuli pilvi, joka peitti heidät varjoonsa, ja pilvestä kuului ääni: "Tämä on minun rakas Poikani; kuulkaa häntä". |
| French | Une nuée vint les couvrir, et de la nuée sortit une voix: Celui-ci est mon Fils bien-aimé: écoutez-le! |
| Gaelic | Agus bha nial a cur sgaile orra, agus as an nial thainig guth, ag radh: Se so mo Mhac ro-ghaolach; eisdibh ris. |
| German | Und es kam eine Wolke, die überschattete sie. Und eine Stimme fiel aus der Wolke und sprach: Das ist mein lieber Sohn; den sollt ihr hören! |
| Haitian Creole | Yon nwaj vin kouvri yo, epi yon vwa moun soti nan nwaj la, li di: -Sa se pitit mwen renmen anpil la. Koute li. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Kemudian awan meliputi mereka dan dari awan itu terdengar suara yang berkata, "Inilah Anak-Ku yang Kukasihi. Dengarkan Dia!" |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka adalah sebuah awan menaungi mereka itu, lalu kedengaranlah suatu suara dari dalam awan itu mengatakan, "Inilah Anak-Ku yang Kukasihi, dengarlah akan Dia." |
| Maori | Na ko tetahi kapua e taumarumaru ana ki runga ki a ratou: a ka puta he reo i te kapua, e mea ana, Ko taku Tama tenei i aroha ai; whakarongo ki a ia. |
| Norwegian | Og en sky kom og overskygget dem, og det kom en røst ut av skyen: Dette er min Sønn, den elskede; hør ham! |
| Portuguese | Nisto veio uma nuvem que os cobriu, e dela saiu uma voz que dizia: Este é o meu Filho amado; a ele ouvi. |
| Rumanian | A venit un nor wi i -a acoperit cu umbra lui; wi din nor s`a auzit un glas, care zicea: ,,Acesta este Fiul Meu prea iubit: de El sq ascultayi!`` |
| Shuar | Tura yurankim tara mikintiu awajsamiayi. Yuranminmaya chichaak "Júiti winia aneamu Uchir. Nii anturkatarum" Tímiayi. |
| Spanish | Vino una nube haciéndoles sombra, y desde la nube una voz decía: "Éste es mi hijo amado; a él oíd." |
| Swahili | Kisha likatokea wingu likawafunika, na sauti ikasikika kutoka katika hilo wingu, "Huyu ni Mwanangu mpendwa, msikilizeni." |
| Swedish | Då kom en sky som överskyggde dem, och ur skyn kom en röst: "Denne är min älskade Son; hören honom." |
| Uma | Nto'u toe wo'o, rata-mi limu' mpokamoui-ra, pai' ngkai rala limu' ra'epe topololita to mpo'uli': "Hi'a toi-mi Ana' -ku to kupe'ahi'. Pe'epei lolita-na!" |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "voice": voiced, voiceful, voicefulness, voicefulnesses, voiceless, voicelessly, voicelessness, voicelessnesses, voiceover, voiceovers, voiceprint, voiceprints, voicer, voicers, voices. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "voice": devoice, invoice, outvoice, revoice, unvoice. (additional references) | |
Words containing "voice": devoiced, devoices, invoiced, invoices, outvoiced, outvoices, revoiced, revoices, unvoiced, unvoices. (additional references) | |
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"Voice" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: boice, doice, hoice, nvoice, oice, Oiche, Oiec, ovibe, ovice, ovict, Ovisco, Ovoca, roice, vaice, varice, vicca, vicee, vicen, viceu, vich, vicie, vico, vicre, viece, vioc, vioe, vione, viote, vobiscum, vocce, vocem, voci, vocid, vocis, voi, voic, voicer, voicy, voide, voie, voige, voire, vois, Voisin, voite, vomic, vonce, vorce, vorice, votce, votice, vouice, voy, Voyce, voye, vuie. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "voice" (pronounced voy"s) |
| 2 | -oy" s | choice, rejoice. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-i-o-v" | |
-1 letter: cove, vice. | |
-2 letters: ice, vie, voe. | |
-3 letters: oe. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-i-o-v" | |
+1 letter: novice, voiced, voicer, voices. | |
+2 letters: cheviot, codrive, connive, corvine, costive, devoice, divorce, evictor, invoice, novices, ovicide, revoice, unvoice, viceroy, vicomte, viscose, voicers, vomicae. | |
+3 letters: biconvex, cheviots, coactive, coderive, codriven, codriver, codrives, coercive, cohesive, coinvent, conative, conceive, connived, conniver, connives, contrive, convince, covering, coverlid, coveting, devoiced, devoices, discover, divorced, divorcee, divorcer, divorces, evection, eviction, evictors, invocate, invoiced, invoices, locative, lovesick, orective, outvoice, overnice, overrich, oversick, ovicides, province, revoiced, revoices, unvoiced, unvoices, varicose, velocity, veronica, viceroys, vicomtes, violence, viscoses, vocalise, vocalize, vocative, voiceful, voidance, vortices. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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