The gadget currently translates from Japanese into Chinese, Korean and English, and features fairly rudimentary voice-recognition technology.
If these street songs suggest the South American equivalent of rap music, the combination of the duo's gruff voices and rudimentary instrumentation, consisting of little more than scrubby-sounding guitar and tambourine, create a sound more reminiscent of early delta blues.
It begins, and continues, with rudimentary instrumentation, just guitar and voice, while describing a night spent walking in London.
At the set's middle, she went back to her strange old ways for a minute: she gave the band a break, sang with a cracking voice and some rudimentary guitar chords, and covered her face with her hair.
When the giant (Vin Diesel's voice) insists in his rudimentary English, "I am not a gun," his little friend (Eli Marienthal) explains, "You are who you choose to be" -- Thursday at 3 p.m. on Cartoon Network.
On this new album, blues-metal, acoustic pop, punk, schoolyard ditty and piano-driven dirge are all brought to life by Ms. White's rudimentary drumming, Mr. White's soulful, unaffected voice and a low-fi garage aesthetic.
And if it was the voice first, it was the guitar later, because few rudimentary guitar players have been so close to the source.
But her voice has grown thin and wobbly, while her acting is painfully rudimentary and lacks the electricity needed to illuminate Norma's delusional character.
The materials he used in his films for children were often rubbish - cast-off bits of grey felt or pink wool from a workbox, rudimentary pencil drawings on bits of card – and the animation was often feeble, but his voice carried you deep into the story.
