Yet TextAloud MP3 (www.nextup.com, $25 with ordinary voices, or $51 with the AT&T voices), a rival program that can also use those voices, exhibits no such glitches.
In Yediot, the commentator Raanan Shaked summed up the feelings of many Israelis after the protests, in which ordinary voices took on a new significance and the issues of war and peace were largely ignored.
In an ordinary voice, as Lanzmann questions him in an equally ordinary voice, the survivor tells of horrors that defy belief.
But you will take them from a man who regularly gets out in front of an excellent band and six high-grade gospel singers, takes his position behind the central microphone and reveals that he has a very ordinary voice.
She was no longer bewildered by the death, only dull, and the next time Martin came to stand hopefully beside her bed she smiled and spoke to him in her ordinary voice.
Whenever his writing threatens to descend into the period's standard responses of disdain or whimsy, his ear catches the unique accent of an ordinary voice and elevates it to the dignity of print.
Another risk despite all the new services is that 70% of 3G mobile revenues still come from ordinary voice calls.
A self-sampled public that is also a collective agent could even be criticized for posing as an entity with a voice of its own that need to be taken seriously while, in fact, it can only be legitimately regarded as an entity with one ordinary voice among ordinary others (because it does not relate in any particular way to a larger population).
What makes the current protests so different is that ordinary secular voices, repressed for so long by both religious and secular authorities, have finally broken out.
"Fahrenheit 9/11" is, along with everything else, an extraordinary collage of ordinary American voices: soldiers in the field, an Oregon state trooper patrolling the border, and, above all, citizens of Flint, Mich., Mr. Moore's hometown.
What is needed from The Times, he added, is more effort not only to get ordinary Iranian voices into the coverage but also to reach across the cultural divide to fully understand significant statements from the Iranian leadership, like the fatwa against nuclear weapons by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader.
