But without a baseline recording, the voices to date have lacked the natural sound of a child's voice.
The Los Angeles based hip-hop collective has been called "polarizing" by the Village Voice, and has to date been written up by large-scale publications like Spin, the Guardian, and even the New Yorker (by Sasha Frere-Jones, no less).
VerbDate is a new dating site, launched in March, that adds voice to the usual online dating experience via Skype.
And while Burger King won a Grand Prix at Cannes for an ad that activated the devices with, "OK, Google, what is the Whopper burger?", and South Park made voice-activated mischief of its own in the premiere of its 21st season, the Beauty and the Beast example is the closest the industry has come to overt advertising in voice-enabled devices to date.
Still at the Court, Alia Bano's "Shades" gave sassy, savvy voice to a topic — the Muslim dating scene in London — that is almost never afforded cultural pride of place.
Good breathing results were reported, while, due to the lack of a truly laryngeal architecture, voice and swallowing remain to date suboptimal.
An early letter in Maxwell's published correspondence with the short story writer Frank O'Connor, dated March 12 1948, gives voice to his gentlemanly method, and suggests what a sensitive editor he was: "I think that, in general, the editing and queries [concerning the short story "The Drunkard"] are fairly restrained, sensible and self-explanatory.
Google has offered limited access to its voice technology in its products to date.
That local network link-up is also part of Cubic's offering: to date, it has mobile voice and data deals with 30 mobile operators covering over 180 countries.
Despite relatively limited coverage of cash and voucher assistance programs to date, stakeholders voiced a widespread preference for cash transfers as did household survey participants.
