Voice
The word "
voice" can be used to refer to:
In
sound:
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Human voice, sound made by a person
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Singer, or vocals, a term used in music recording to signify that an artist has contributed vocals to a song or album
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Singing refers to the art of making music with the voice
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Voice acting, providing a voice for some sort of media without being visible
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human voice as an instrument, a term for instrumental compositions for the
human voice* The
register of a line of counterpoint, including
soprano,
alto,
tenor,
bass. These terms come from the section of the choir to which a line would be given (the
soprano voice would have been given to the soprano voices)
* In
synthesis, a section of components or code producing a
monophonic signal. For
polyphony, several voices are needed. See also :
Speech synthesis* 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),
phonation*
Auditory hallucinations:
hearing voices*
Voice message, a signal in various media (e.g. radio) which carries the sound of a human voice
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Bird song refers to the voices and calls of birds
In
literature and language:
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Writer's voice, a voice one hears in the mind when reading literature, also called
*
point of view, the tone of a piece of writing
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Grammatical voice, in grammar, is a verb-form that indicates the relationship between the subject and the action expressed by the verb
In
popular culture (chronologically):
Voices is a forthcoming translation of a 2002 novel by Icelandic author Arnaldur Indriưason, to be published in
August,
2006*
Voice, a plot element of the Dune universe
Voices was the Hall & Oates album released in 1980
*"Voices" is the theme song from the 1994 anime series
Macross Plus, performed by Yoko Kanno and Akino Arai.
*"VOICES" is a Bangalore based NGO. VOICES stands for 'Voices of Individuals and Communities Empowering Society through Vehicles of Information and Communication Enabling Social Change'
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The Voices are the name of a pre-teen singing group of the early 1990's
The Voice is a story starring
The Shadow*"The Voice" is a reference to several singers, such as
Garth Brooks,
Jackson Browne and
Mariah Carey, as in "The Return of The Voice"
Voice is the title of an album released in
2005 by the British singer
Alison Moyet.
Miscellaneous:
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The Voice is a British weekly paper serving the black community
The Voice Magazine, a student publication at Athabasca University
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The Voice (Norway), a radio station
The Voice is a newspaper for the
Winnipeg Labour Party* In
voting, see
voice vote* In
Human resource management and
industrial relations, see
Employee voice