For a smart speaker based around voice, there's virtually no voice-controlled settings options.
I wish I could say something like "we need to take back our voice," (delivered in an impassioned Valley-girl twang) but since we're living in an age where virtually anyone can voice an opinion online, I'll ride with pragmatism and deadpan "closed mouths don't get fed".
We should note how the virtually passive voice in this tweet hides the one performing the action, which is exactly what passive voice constructions can do.
The singer's virtually disembodied voice confronts the lugubrious figure of the organ grinder.
Should Republicans lose control, they would have virtually no voice in the reapportionment next year of the state's congressional districts.
Furthermore, virtually every voice assistant, including Amazon's Echo and Apple's Siri, uses the site to give customers a wide range of answers to their questions.
Today, Microsoft and the Justice Department, which had been fierce courtroom adversaries for years during the Clinton administration, spoke with virtually one voice on most issues.
"We send 2.5 million I.M.'s within I.B.M. each day," says David Marshak, senior product manager for collaboration at I.B.M. "And we have virtually zero voice mails here".
The people facing the worst impacts of climate change have virtually no voice in western debates about whether to do anything serious to prevent catastrophic global warming.
Last month, finding virtually no voices in favor of the law, the village board responded: the historic district designation was rescinded and the commission terminated.
When former Representative Todd Akin of Missouri and other Republican politicians betrayed outrageous ignorance of the meaning and consequences of the crime last year, Americans responded with a virtually uniform voice of reproof and disgust at their language.
