Someone voiced a preference for songs over speeches.
He said his company never voiced a preference for such terms.
A slim majority voiced a preference for gun control over gun rights in April, according to the Pew Research Center, and two polls this fall suggested that support for stricter gun laws grew somewhat in the wake of those high-profile shootings.
State-level advocates have voiced a preference for a more incremental approach that would allow incumbent managers, boards and shareholders of individual companies to decide whether shareholder proxy access is desirable and, if so, the details of any conditions that should be included in the company's bylaws.
His successor is a ruddy-cheeked bear of a figure with a pomaded part to his hair, a rich radio voice, and a preference for the kind of roomy Western suits you expect on a regional sales rep.
Levin and Nolan realized that, instead of building a new coalition of name-brand conservatives for each battle, they could get supporters to sign on to a statement of principles — transparency and accountability, individual liberty, cost-effectiveness, a chance for rehabilitation, limited government, a voice for crime victims, a preference for solutions based on family and community.
While the Emoter Voice, for example, is marked by a high frequency of Affect (e.g., sad, happy) and tends to occur in personalized genres such as autobiographies, the Appraiser voices are characterized by a preference for explicit judgment (e.g., brave, cruel) and are found in more argumentative genres (see also Ngo and Unsworth 2015 for recent revisions to the Appraisal framework).
What we found is that these Californian listeners had a preference for voices that exhibited typical sounding voices, but what exactly this means is different for the male and female voices". This study was published online in the journal PLOS ONE on Feb. 19, 2014.
While Cortana is "crystal clear" that she is not human, the team gave her a female voice because early users expressed a preference for a female virtual assistant, Harrison said.
