Voice
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The word "voice" can be used to refer to:
In sound:
- Human voice, sound made by a person
- Singer, or vocals, a term used in music recording to signify that an artist has contributed vocals to a song or album
- Singing refers to the art of making music with the voice
- Voice acting, providing a voice for some sort of media without being visible
- 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
- 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
- Bird song refers to the voices and calls of birds
In literature and language:
- 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
- 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):
- 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'
- 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 a album released in 2005 by the British singer Alison Moyet.
Miscellaneous:
- The Voice is a British weekly paper serving the black community
- The Voice Magazine, a student publication at Athabasca University
- 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
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