With a wardrobe apparently borrowed from Austin Powers, Gyula Orendt's constantly flummoxed Count voices his near continuous anger in an incisive baritone, while in Davide Luciano's Figaro fundamental good humour alternates with trenchantly expressed volatility.
(The company is not counting voice assistants on smartphones in this part of its forecast – only those digital assistants on standalone voice-enabled speakers).
A dozen wildly improbable characters spring to life through his zipped lips, not counting voices rising from the basement, floating from the wings or muttering startlingly right next to our ears.
Six different scenarios were tested, including breathing through the nose (b-n-n), breathing through the nose and exhaling from the mouth (b-n-m), whispered counting, voiced counting, and coughing.
By one count, "The Voice" was mentioned from the stage of the Hilton Hotel ballroom 21 times.
Delivering the biggest UK opening of Kevin Hart's career – unless you count his voice work in The Secret Life of Pets – action comedy Central Intelligence begins with a sturdy £3.05m.
He's been missing in action since The Cat in the Hat in 2003, unless you count his voice work in the Shrek movies.
In case you're keeping count: Google Voice Search hit the iPhone mid-November 2008 and landed on Android at the beginning of February 2009.
"Maleficent," a retelling of the "Sleeping Beauty" story from the villain's perspective, is Jolie's first on-screen effort in four years, if you don't count her voice work in "Kung-Fu Panda 2".
"We are calling on everyone to join UNICEF and the #IMAGINE campaign because every child counts and every voice counts".
