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Human voice is sound made by a person using the vocal folds for talking, singing or crying.
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". See nonverbal communication. Singers use the voice as an
instrument for creating music.
See also about human voice:
- Vocal loading
- Voice analysis
- Voice frequency
- Voice change in boys
- voice disorders
- Voice production
- Voice registers
- Phonetics
The word voice also has other meanings:
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 the section of the choir to which a line would be given (the soprano
voice would have been given to the soprano voices).
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
In voting, see voice vote.
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