I'm just listening to them, and they all have different personalities, temperaments, voice, rate of speed.
Skype's principal source of revenue is international calls made by people unwilling to pay standard voice rates, which can be far higher.
Re "Bush Backs Off Rule That Eased Phone Line Fees" (front page, June 10) and "Defending Phone Competition" (editorial, June 4): Any notion that local rates may "soar" if the telecom rules change is untrue because all voice rates, wireless and wireline, are being kept in check by intensely competitive wireless offerings and new technologies, like voice over Internet protocol.
Voice plans aren't mentioned here, but they're at standard corporate voice rates.
Robert Christgau of the Village Voice rated Slay Tracks an A-, and selected it as his fourth favorite EP of 1990.
Robert Christgau of The Village Voice rated the album a "dud", indicating "a bad record whose details rarely merit further thought".
Researchers at a Canadian university have found that voters prefer lower-pitched voices, rating their speakers higher for attractiveness, leadership potential, honesty, intelligence and dominance.
Each student assessed a single, randomly assigned trait for all the voices, rating them, for instance, as more or less dominant on a scale of one to nine.
Soho Voices' rates (not including the fees for an artist) start at £89 per hour.
Compared with previous voice-rating tools, the VoiSS focuses more on communication difficulties, pharyngeal symptoms, and psychosocial distress.
