voice-activated

[ vois-ak-tuh-vey-tid ]

/ ˈvɔɪsˌæk təˌveɪ tɪd /

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adjective

(of a telephone answering machine or other device) operationally responsive to a human voice.

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“Jeffrey wanted me to tell you that you looked so pretty,” the female voice said into my disbelieving ear.
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As he drove me back to the logging road, Frank told me about the area in his deep voice.
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When he does, here is a gentleness in his voice, a reflective and lovely quality that no movie he has been in has ever captured.
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“He is borrowing my voice to tell you this story,” she told the crowd.
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Other things being equal, the volume of voice used measures the value that the mind puts upon the thought.
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She was flushed and felt intoxicated with the sound of her own voice and the unaccustomed taste of candor.
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I called out several times, as loud as I could raise my voice, but all to no purpose.
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The Princess still kept her eyes fixed on Louis, while, in a suppressed and unsteady voice, she answered her governess.
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For this use of the voice in the special service of will-power, or propelling force, it is necessary first to test its freedom.
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