Voice picking

Giorgio s voice faded away in the ending of a verse. His oar creaked in the rowlock other voices picked up the melody in the distance. 

There is no scorn in his voice. Perhaps he has not seen. Yes, thank you. The wine smells of sun and I pick up the cup to breathe it more deeply. I could get drunk tonight I would not be the first. But how then could I comfort Richard Grey on the morrow, or pray with a whole mind, or greet my death, and my God, as I should No, I will not get drunk. 

I am so interested in wishes that I conducted an international study of human desire in which I asked respondents to imagine the following scenario You are walking down a path and come to a colorful stone. As you pick up the stone, you hear a voice saying, Squeeze the stone with all your might, and your wishes will be granted. Use the stone as often as you like. You hold the stone in your trembling hand for a few seconds, close your eyes, and make your wishes. What are your wishes ... 

Presenting is also advantageous to the audience. Well-planned transparencies or PowerPoint slides provide a second channel of information, augmenting the primary source—the speaker s voice. An audience member who misses a point from one source can often pick it up from the other. Moreover, in this video age it is not irrelevant that a transparency presentation is a visually engaging activity. An audience raised on television expects to have its visual field filled. A communicator who misses or misunderstands such an important audience expectation is simply asking for trouble. 

Figure 9.22 Two-voice,separation using sine-wave analysis/synthesis and peak-picking. (Reprinted with permission from [Quatieri and Danisewicz, 1990], 1990, IEEE)...

If you can no longer go outdoors, it s still very important to entertain yourself with something. Find hobbies that are still possible or pick up the activities that you never got around to but always wanted to do, which you ll have all the time in the world for now. There is more out there than you think. It s often just a matter of realigning your perspectives and learning to look for that which you can still do. Also see Part II The Personal Situation and Part III The Voices of Others. 

The way you perceive a person s tone of voice has a great deal to do with how you understand what that person is saying. The same is true of tone in writing it s vital to pick up on clues to tone in order to understand a written piece fully. This lesson shows you how. 

Sintered magnets based on the Nd2Fei4B phase are the most important material for industrial magnetic applications. The most important applications are voice-coil motors (VCM) for hard disk drives, CD/MD pick-up systems, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and more recently motors for the electrical vehicle (EV) (Hirosawa and Kaneko 1998). 

No one could refuse this suggestion. At the very mention of the fish-stalls the witnesses felt a growing appetite they at once picked up their caps and hats and the audience was at an end. As they were passing through the outer office, Ivan Antonovich or jug s snout , as he was called, bowed respectfully and said to Ghichikov in a low voice ... 

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