But Glass's cumbersome voice-control system shows that nonverbal phatic interactions will need to flow in the other direction, too: from the user to the device.
In a cumbersome opening voice-over, this film's co-director and English-language narrator, Maureen Gosling, vows to demythologize the Zapotec people of Juchitán, a town on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in southeastern Mexico.
Dialing numbers by voice command was a cumbersome multistep process.
Google believes its fees were limiting adoption and were particularly cumbersome when it came to enabling voice shopping.
For example, when I can open my refrigerator, read off a series of potential ingredients I have on hand, and get back receipt suggestions, I'll have accomplished something with my voice that would be cumbersome in other computing environments.
The Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions is a cumbersome name for one of the most high-visibility voice competition in America.
Laser beams could carry information, like voice and data, and Bell Labs began a cumbersome and expensive endeavor to create hollow pipes that would serve as waveguides to send the beam to the proper destination.
But any new technology would have to be approved by the notoriously stubborn academic, who reportedly does not want to learn a cumbersome new system and wants to preserve his distinctive electronic voice.
Just as important, the communities affected should have a voice in this decision beyond the clunky and cumbersome process of filing written comments.
A showbiz veteran named Bob May wore a cumbersome robot suit for filming, while radio announcer Dick Tufeld dubbed in the voice.
Right now, packet-switched voice calls offered through the likes of Qwest and IXC are cumbersome and slow.
