Voice

The word "voice" can be used to refer to:

• Sound:
  • The human voice.
  • A section of a choir or other musical ensemble that sings or plays the same part.
  • 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 phonation, voiced consonant.
  • Auditory hallucinations: hearing voices

• Literature and language:
  • The tone of a piece of writing, influenced by its point of view.
  • In grammar, voice is a verb-form that indicates the relationship between the subject and the action expressed by the verb. See grammatical voice

• Popular culture (chronologically):
  • Voice, a plot element of the Dune universe
  • Voices was the Hall & Oates album released in 1980. One of its singles was the number-one hit "Kiss on My List", and it is considered by many to be the starting point of the duo's major success in the 1980s.
  • "Voices" is the theme song from the 1994 anime series Macross Plus, performed by Yoko Kanno and Akino Arai.
  • The Voice was Ireland's winning song at the Eurovision Song Contest 1996
  • "Voices" is a song from the album The Sickness (2000) by hard rock band Disturbed.
  • "Voices" is a song from the album Only in Amerika (2004) by hardcore punk band (hed) p.e..
  • "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"

• Miscellaneous:
  • The Voice is a British weekly paper serving the black community
  • The Voice Magazine
  • The Voice (Norway)
  • 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