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13 unusual facts about Voice


Albert Otto Hirschman

Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States.

The first describes the three basic possible responses to decline in firms or polities: Exit, Voice, and Loyalty.

Electro-Voice

When Columbia/CBS and Sony developed their Stereo Quadraphonic system (SQ) that system become the leading matrix system and Electro-Voice adapted their decoders so they also could play SQ records as well as Sansui's QS records.

Ksawery Jasieński

Ksawery Jasieński (born September 13, 1931) is a Polish radio speaker, voice actor, voice-over lector and one of the most distinctive voices in the history of dubbing in Poland.

Mick Gooding

He has since carved himself a career as a radio commentary pundit, performing such roles as co-commentator for BBC Radio Berkshire's coverage of Reading's Premier League matches, while also working as an estate agent in Mortimer.

S1 MP3 player

Recording via built-in microphone or FM radio in ADPCM WAV (32 kbit/s mono or 64k bps stereo; using FFmpeg codec named adpcm ima wav), ACT (8 kbit/s) or VOR (32 or 8 kbit/s) formats, and ability to play back these files locally or via Windows Media Player when connected as an MSC device.

Stoke-on-Trent College

The station broadcasts 24 hours per day but for the majority of the time broadcasts non-stop music.

Tomiko Van

2007 started out with Van's first cover album entitled Voice: Cover You With Love.

Voice-based marketing automation

Call tracking enables marketers to tie incoming phone calls back to the specific marketing source (ad, keyword search, email, QR code, web site, collateral, trade show, or other source) that originated it.

Voice-over translation

A typical voice-over translation is usually done by a single male voice artist.

Some of the most prolific "Gavrilov translators" began their careers at such screenings, including Andrey Gavrilov himself, as well as Aleksey Mikhalyov and Leonid Volodarskiy.

XHTML+Voice

Interfacing the voice and visual components of X+V documents is accomplished through a combination of ECMAScript, JavaScript, and XML Events.

Many different companies support VoiceXML and XHTML+Voice by providing various development tools and in particular IBM and Opera Software.


Alejandra Gutierrez Oraa

While working in radio, Oraa became known as “the voice” of numerous international campaigns for HBO's Sex and the City, Olive Garden, Ford, and Marshalls, among others.

Ar tonelico: Melody of Elemia

Each Reyvateil has their own singer (who is different from their voice actor in both Japanese and English versions) who performed their Songs and Hymns: Aurica: Haruka Shimotsuki, Misha: Akiko Shikata, Shurelia: Noriko Mitose and Claire: Yūko Ishibashi.

Artix Entertainment

Other special events include wars, in which players collaborate to defeat enough "waves" of monsters to win the war over several days, and live events with guest stars like Voltaire, One-Eyed Doll, George Lowe, Paul and Storm, Jonathan Coulton, the cast of Ctrl+Alt+Del, Ayi Jihu, ArcAttack, They Might Be Giants, and Michael Sinterniklaas as the voice of Deady.

Avery Waddell

He was the voice of the main protagonist Marcus Reed in the 2005 video game True Crime: New York City, as well as the voice of the main protagonist in the "Build a Label" mode of the 2007 video game Def Jam: Icon.

Carol Lynley

Lynley may be best known for her film roles in Return to Peyton Place, Under the Yum Yum Tree, Bunny Lake is Missing, The Cardinal, Harlow, and the original The Poseidon Adventure, in which she performed the Oscar-winning song "The Morning After" (but her singing voice actually was that of studio singer, Renee Armand).

Chhibber

It is stated that when the execution began, Bhai Mati Das started reciting the Japji Sahib and the voice continued to come from the two parts of his body till the prayer was completed.

Child of the Prophecy

Publishers Weekly said that "Marillier's strong voice and rolling, lucid prose seem appropriate for a 10th-century Irish tale, and her command of a fantasy story's

Chimney Safety Institute of America

In 1992, Dick Van Dyke, America’s most recognizable chimney sweep, donated his voice talent to the Chimney Safety Institute of America helping CSIA produce a public service announcement distributed to 404 stations across the country in time for National Chimney Sweep Week.

Christopher Murney

His voice can be heard as Chester Cheetah for Cheetos and most recently (2006) in the popular video games, as Dwayne from VCPR New World Order talk radio in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories by Rockstar Games, and as Black Garius, the bad guy, in Neverwinter Nights 2, and as various characters in Red Dead Revolver.

Cliff's Hit Album

From Expresso Bongo, "A Voice in the Wilderness" is deliciously desolate, while two other tracks were among the handful of songs premiered to a specially invited panel of fans, who were then asked to choose Richard's next single from among them: "Please Don't Tease" was voted into first place, and duly rose to number one; the artist's own favorite, "Nine Times out of Ten" came third, and, released as the follow-up, it reached number three.

David Willis

Dave Willis (born 1970), American voice actor, writer, and producer

Delicious Library

When A Brief History of Time is added, the library talks about science concepts in a mock-synthesized voice;

Dileep Rao

Lee Unkrich is reported with an "average" of over $400 million, but this is from a voice appearance in a single film.

Don Diamond

He performed extensive voice-over work in commercials and cartoons, most notably as the voice of Toro in the DePatie-Freleng Enterprises cartoon series Tijuana Toads.

Ferndale, Washington

Daran Norris - actor, most notably for voice work and a recurring role on the television series Veronica Mars

Francis Leon

He further asserted that he took voice lessons from famous opera teacher Errani.

From the Diary of Sally Hemings

From the Diary of Sally Hemings is a song cycle for voice and piano, with libretto by Sandra Seaton.

Genzo

Genzō Wakayama (born 1932), Japanese voice actor and disc jockey

Gökhan Özoğuz

Gökhan Özoğuz is one of the four jury members in the third season of the reality television singing competition O Ses Türkiye aired by Star TV, the Turkish version of the television show Voice.

Gregorio Wu Pak Chiu

Wu Pak Chiu was born in Guangzhou, China, and graduated from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music in 1937 where he studied voice under Professor Lu Cha Zhi.

Harumi Ikoma

She is the standard voice for the characters Blue Mary, King, Charlotte, and Nakoruru who appear in the popular franchises of video games King of Fighters, Fatal Fury, Art of Fighting and Samurai Shodown.

Heidi, Girl of the Alps

The American version was produced by Claudio Guzman and Charles Ver Halen and featured a voice cast including Randi Kiger as Heidi, Billy Whitaker as Peter, Michelle Laurita as Clara, Vic Perrin as Alm-Ohi, Alan Reed as Sebastian, and legendary voice talent Janet Waldo as Aunt Dete.

Hip-Hip and Hurra

Hummingbird - small but aggressive wise guy with over the top groveling voice which is parody of Polish actor Witold Pyrkosz.

Jeff Bergman

Eventually, after almost 20 years, he returned as the voice of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Foghorn Leghorn, Sylvester the Cat, Pepé Le Pew, and Tweety in 2011’s The Looney Tunes Show.

Jeffrey A. Citron

Jeffrey A. Citron is the chairman of Vonage, a voice-over-IP phone company.

John Burgmeier

John Burgmeier (born October 24, 1974 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American anime voice actor, ADR script/head writer and the son of voice actress, Linda Young.

Jolana Fogašová

She studied voice at the Bratislava Conservatory (1986–1990) and at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava under the tutelage of Viktória Stracenská (1990–1994).

José Luis Gil

José Luis Gil (Zaragoza, December 9, 1957) is a Spanish television, cinema, theatre and voice actor.

Joshua Mowll

“Mowll’s genius, though, is in his clever mixing of old and new storytelling devices, and a clear and intelligent voice that should appeal to both girls and boys...” South China Morning Post, Hong Kong 28/08/05

Juhan Viiding

It is not known whether Viiding intended to develop a second poetic voice in addition to that of Jüri Üdi, or that he simply realized that the Soviet era of ideological symbols—as described in his "Jüri’s Yarn"—was coming to an end and the actor Jüri Üdi could drop the mask to reveal Juhan Viiding’s true literary face.

La'Myia Good

She is best known for her voice work in the blockbuster PlayStation 3 game Killzone 3 as the voice of Jammer and her work with R&B group Isyss.

Leo Watson

Watson also provided the voice for Prince Chawmin' in the infamous Censored Eleven cartoon Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs (directed by Bob Clampett, 1943).

Little Red Riding Rabbit

Little Red Riding Hood is depicted as a typical 1940s teen-aged girl, a "bobby soxer" with an extremely loud and grating voice (inspired by screen and radio comedienne Cass Daley, provided by Bea Benaderet).

Malik Muhammad Arif

During the Marshal's Law of military dictator Zia ul Haq, he raised his voice for freedom of his fellows who were imprisoned & sentenced for jail & lashes.

Mary Elise Hayden

She studied at the Young Actors Theater in Tallahassee, Florida, for seven years and attended the Middle School of the Arts in North Palm Beach, Florida, and, in West Palm Beach, Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts, where she majored in voice and theater.

Masters of the Maze

In the Roth season this was simply the face of an older woman (played by Renae Jacobs); in the Lopez season, the likeness of a younger redhead woman appeared with a high-pitched voice (played by Clea Montville).

Pablo Motos

Binaca made an announcement referring to a bad mouth, has been the voice of Coca Cola, announced the bank credit card Visa and released the air conditioning Fujitsu.

Paola Mori

After the release of Mr. Arkadin in 1955, she was stung by the wave of negative reviews of her performance (in which her voice had been dubbed by Billie Whitelaw, to conceal her strong Italian accent), and once she was married to Welles, she acted in only a handful of her husband's projects, and then withdrew from acting altogether.

Passive voice

Many commentators, notably George Orwell in his essay "Politics and the English Language" and Strunk & White in The Elements of Style, have urged minimizing use of the passive voice.

Paul Spencer Sochaczewski

Gary Braver, bestselling author of Skin Deep, said “Paul’s writing in The Sultan and the Mermaid Queen has the humanity of Somerset Maugham, the adventure of Joseph Conrad, the perception of Paul Theroux, and a self-effacing voice uniquely his own.”

Percy Stuart

After 52 episodes which were often physically demanding even for the athletically skilled Claus Wilcke and which moreover had to be produced within tight schemes and budgets, its cherished star Claus Wilcke turned his back on the increasingly more violent show, decided successfully to return to stage acting, founded a family and worked later also successfully as a voice-over actor (which is in Germany, where people are used to dubbed TV shows, a highly respected profession).

Raktima Mukerjee

Raktima was known for her clean and unique voice quality in Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 2005.

Ratnakar Pai

Endowed with a sweet voice and an uncanny sense of Laya, Pai’s singing is one of the purest expressions of the traditional Jaipur-Atrauli Gayaki.

Rick Zieff

He has recently done the voice of Shusuke Amagai in the anime series Bleach as well as Simon in Steamboy.

Stephanie Sheh

Beyond using her voice, Stephanie was flown by plane to Japan to voice and motion capture the role of Cereza in Sega's video game Bayonetta.

The Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology at Simon Fraser University

These two four week courses focused upon a range of topics from Art Theory and Criticism, Voice Training, Choreography, New Media, Film Sound and Music and Javanese Court Gamelan.

The Vanishing Duck

O'Hanlon would go on to star as the voice of George Jetson on the ABC-TV animated series, The Jetsons, also produced by Hanna-Barbera, four years later.

Tim Russell

Tim Russell (born 1947/8) is an American radio announcer and voice actor (AFTRA/SAG) in Minneapolis – Saint Paul.

Welcome to the Discworld

The film featured Christopher Lee as the voice of Death, as did the following animated TV series and the 2008 Terry Pratchett's The Colour of Magic live-action TV miniseries.

X-Bomber

Two of the English voice actors, Jay Benedict and Garrick Hagon, had appeared in Star Wars (1977) portraying Deak and Biggs, two of Luke Skywalker's friends on Tatooine (though Hagon's role was reduced in editing and Benedict's scenes were cut altogether).