Sometimes when you hit that bottom level, depressed, exhausted and worn out, it takes a voice from outside to encourage you to pick yourself back up and move forward again.

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Not only do we hear our voice from the outside, but we also hear it through our skull, which muffles the sound to some extent.

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The CEO in yet another organization decided one day that outside callers were going to voice mail too often, and so decreed that no one in the company would have voice mail.

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Since coming back to the U.S. in 2005, he's settled into a sales and marketing job with ATX Communications, a voice and data provider for businesses, outside Philadelphia.

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It may seem far-fetched to think that Americans would pay anything at all to listen to a single voice message, but in most countries outside of the U.S. where Bubble Motion operates, it's normal for people to pay per text message.

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Voice Focus - Beam-forming creates a zone and suppresses noise outside it to enable whoever is speaking to be heard with amazing clarity.

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Virtually unknown outside his native Romania, with a perfectly pencil-thin mustache and a voice that flutters in mid-air, Siminica packed cafes and clubs in Bucharest in the 1960s.

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Michael Jackson carried around a voice recorder and would use it to capture ideas that came to him outside the studio.

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Just as biotechnology and software have sprung up outside the mainstream drugs and computer industries, so the industry that has grown up on voice circuits will find it hard to transfer its grip to the new world of data networks.

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