{
  "id": "voice.auditory",
  "term": "voice",
  "sense": "auditory",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 17,
  "arena": "common",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a sound that a human says",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "sound.auditory",
      "human.person",
      "says.speech"
    ],
    "interaction": "a human says and sound follows",
    "novel_properties": [
      "personal timbre",
      "speech articulation"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "During the 2020 U.S. presidential debates, Donald Trump spoke 3,421 words while Joe Biden spoke 2,954, each producing distinct human voice sounds.",
      "domain": "politics"
    },
    {
      "text": "A nurse hears a patient say 'I need water' in a hospital ward, the voice emerging from the patient's vocal cords and speech.",
      "domain": "medicine"
    },
    {
      "text": "In the 1966 Beatles' track 'Yellow Submarine', Ringo Starr's voice sings the lead, recorded at Abbey Road Studios in London.",
      "domain": "music"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "sound.auditory",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": "voice is a type of sound that carries speech"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "voice",
    "voiced",
    "voices",
    "voicing"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-voice.auditory"
}