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- Tone of Voice Guide https://monzo.com/tone-of-voice/ 40 comments
- Hone your tone of voice: A linguistic perspective on how to talk to customers https://unbabel.com/blog/tone-of-voice-linguistic-perspective/ 48 comments
- An Outspoken Voice for Women in Tech, Foiled by His Tone http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/26/technology/personaltech/an-outspoken-voice-for-women-in-tech-foiled-by-his-tone.html 28 comments
- In Trump’s America, a Toned-Down Voice for Human Rights https://nytimes.com/2017/03/10/world/europe/in-trumps-america-a-toned-down-voice-for-human-rights.html 3 comments politics
- Microsoft’s new AI can simulate anyone’s voice with 3 seconds of audio Text-to-speech model can preserve speaker's emotional tone and acoustic environment. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/01/microsofts-new-ai-can-simulate-anyones-voice-with-3-seconds-of-audio/?comments=1&comments-page=3 1293 comments technology
- Why do they have to make it all such a big joke? Why can’t they just be professionals and report the news as it is without adding voice tones of mockery and laughs and making funny faces. Just report the news without adding personal opinions! https://youtu.be/zamFLiSJ_fg 10 comments aliens
- Amazon’s new health band is the most invasive tech we’ve ever tested | The Halo Band asks you to strip down and strap on a microphone so that it can make 3-D scans of your body fat and monitor your tone of voice. After all that, it still isn’t very helpful. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/12/10/amazon-halo-band-review/ 21 comments technology
- Amazon wants to listen to your tone of voice. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/27/opinion/amazon-halo-surveillance.html 3 comments technology
- Cranky billionaire scolds Elizabeth Warren for not being nicer to rich people - Leon Cooperman does not appreciate the (entirely reasonable) tone of Warren’s voice https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/10/leon-cooperman-elizabeth-warren 158 comments politics
- Study suggests teenagers less likely to respond to mothers with controlling tone of voice, than mothers with supporting tone of voice https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-09/cu-tll092619.php 53 comments science
- Kimi's current voice tone was caused by him falling off a bike when he was a wee lad. https://www.reddit.com/r/formula1/comments/9t79kv/kimis_current_voice_tone_was_caused_by_him/ 32 comments formula1
- A study has found adults are able to accurately read a range of emotions in the voices of teens. Meanwhile teens are far less able to understand what is going on with their peers, particularly when it comes to tones of voice which express anger, meanness, disgust, or happiness. https://www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/article/teenagers-have-hard-time-reading-one-anothers-tones-voice 9 comments science
- Scientists have demonstrated for the first time that horses integrate human facial expressions and voice tones to perceive human emotion, regardless of whether the person is familiar or not. https://www.global.hokudai.ac.jp/blog/how-do-horses-read-human-emotional-cues/ 15 comments science
- Tips for voice tone for phone sales calls? https://www.reddit.com/r/sales/comments/6lvafx/tips_for_voice_tone_for_phone_sales_calls/ 9 comments sales
- Research suggests that preschool-aged children can learn bias even through nonverbal signals displayed by adults, such as a condescending tone of voice or a disapproving look. http://www.washington.edu/news/2016/12/21/study-children-can-catch-social-bias-through-non-verbal-signals-expressed-by-adults/ 8 comments science
- Researchers have created a digital audio platform that can modify the emotional tone of people's voices while they are talking, to make them sound happier, sadder or more fearful. While listening to their altered voices, participants' emotional state change in accordance with the new emotion. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-01/lu-twy011116.php 80 comments science
- Words can deceive, but tone of voice cannot http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/11/151123202344.htm 6 comments science
- [Nichols] Kyrie Irving echoing what many #Cavaliers fans are thinking: "Obviously you can see the tone in my voice, I'm a little worried." https://twitter.com/rachel__nichols/status/606680769956704256 43 comments nba
- Now you can donate your voice. Scientists want clips to develop personalized tones for people unable to talk http://dathealth.com/now-can-donate-voice-scientists-want-clips-develop-personalised-tones-people-unable-talk/ 34 comments science
- This is why I love British press: ""I'm getting EXCITED," he ejaculated at one point, in exactly the tone of voice you wouldn't want to hear from a raincoat-wearing stranger sitting behind you on the Tube late at night." -- in reference to Boris Becker http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tomchiversscience/100225242/watching-andy-murray-win-wimbledon-is-even-better-when-you-can-skip-through-the-flatulent-commentary/ 3 comments tennis
- "For those who think that irony "is almost always indicated by tone of voice", a little quiz:" http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2868 14 comments linguistics
- A Dictionary of the Near Future - INTERNAL VOICE BLINDNESS: The near universal inability of people to articulate the tone and personality of the voice that forms their interior monologue. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/13/opinion/13coupland.html?_r=1&th&emc=th 3 comments culturalstudies
- Perhaps, I dared to dream, we might now enter a halcyon new age of reason and common sense, of calm voices and measured tones, with an end to all the screaming and name-calling. Boy, did I get it wrong. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kara-vallow/no-more-mister-white-guy_b_408802.html 4 comments politics
- Certain tones in Vietnamese are always realized with certain voicing. E.g. nang1 and nga tones with creaky voice, huyen, hoi and nang2 with breathy voice. Is there a term for this sort of "stacking" of phonemic aspects ? https://www.internationalphoneticassociation.org/icphs-proceedings/ICPhS2003/papers/p15_1703.pdf 5 comments linguistics
- Baby seals share a rare vocal ability with humans. They can change the tone of their voice to be better understood, much like humans https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0456 21 comments science
- Pompeo voices confidence for 'second Trump administration,' then softens tone on post-election transition https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-pompeo/pompeo-voices-confidence-for-second-trump-administration-then-softens-tone-on-post-election-transition-iduskbn27q2yh 32 comments politics
- Pay Amazon a monthly fee to let it take pictures of you in your underwear and monitor the tone of your voice (Halo fitness tracker) https://www.cnet.com/news/amazon-halo-fitness-tracker-will-measure-your-body-fat-tone-of-voice/ 3 comments business
- Russian MH17 Suspect Identified by 'High-Pitched' Voice: Investigators have identified a Russian military officer from the distinctive tone of his voice. Oleg Vladimirovich Ivannikov has been named by investigators as heading military operations in eastern Ukraine when the Boeing 777 was shot down. http://www.newsweek.com/russian-mh17-suspect-identified-high-pitched-voice-946892 932 comments worldnews
- Gattuso's first training as the new Milan manager was extremely intense and he was very direct towards the players with a "strong tone of voice". http://www.milannews.it/news/di-stefano-primo-allenamento-di-gattuso-estremamente-intenso-ha-usato-toni-di-voce-alti-per-incoraggiare-276547 65 comments soccer
- "Many junior naval officers are not confident on bridge-to-bridge radio transmissions. Merchants pick up a lot from the tone of voice on the radio. What they want to hear is 'Motor Vessel Patriot, we are coming right to 092. Meet you on one whistle, over,' in a 'command voice'." https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2017-11/charting-course-what-merchant-mariners-see-you 29 comments navy
- Dogs can understand human speech, scientists discover: Brain scans discover evidence that dogs process language in a similar way to humans and are only truly happy if a praising tone of voice is matched by the actual words spoken http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/dogs-can-understand-human-speech-scientists-say-a7216481.html 438 comments worldnews
- A smoke alarm using a mother’s voice significantly outperformed a tone alarm in a new randomized trial. The maternal voice alarms awakened 86%-91% of children and prompted 84%-86% to escape compared with 53% awakened and 51% escaped for the tone alarm. https://www.jpeds.com/article/s0022-3476(18)31298-8/fulltext 689 comments science