In a test, the voice mode certainly gave my speech a professional sound, deepening it and making it richer.
There's a British voice mode, plus the ability to change the speed or tone of the voice, uppercase or lowercase letters, and two backgrounds.
Of the other tracks on the new EP, Give You Away features Wilson in quavery voice mode, like a eunuch Bryan Ferry warbling "I'm missing a part of you" ahead of the more harshly sung chorus, "I'll give you away", the latter paraphrasing the misunderstood philosopher Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner who once decreed that "if you love somebody, set them free".
Pandora, meanwhile, is planning to roll out Voice Mode to all users — both free and paid.
Voice Mode will be available in the Pandora app via the search bar next to the magnifying glass.
The new feature, called "Voice Mode," taps into Pandora's machine learning and data science capabilities, which is an active battleground between music services.
Pandora Voice Mode will launch today, January 15, to a percentage of the iOS and Android user base — around a million listeners.
But its own "voice mode" option is only available for its Premium users, according to a FAQ on the company's website.
Aside from providing mobile access to Alexa and its various Skills, OV also offers tunable sound, including voice mode for calls and ambient for letting audio from the world around you to pass through to your ears.
An Ambient Voice Mode amplifies certain frequencies of voices so you can hear a person speak better.
