The best sales assistants have an engaging manner and an ear for personal detail.

FORBES: Algorithm And Blues

But the audio feature is far from perfect: Amazon's text-to-speech software mispronounces most obscure words and doesn't have much of an ear for dialogue.

FORBES: Magazine Article

Boris Kodjoe is believable as an amorous basketball player, and Mos Def has great success with the small role of Christopher, a rapper reduced to driving a taxi. (And one of the only medallioned cabs in New York without a security barrier, which would have impeded several dialogue scenes.) Keep an ear out for Christopher's quick rap on Bogey and Casablanca.

WSJ: High Anxiety: 'Punch-Drunk Love'

It had been usual before he was appointed for the president to have a circle of close advisers, each in an important-sounding job and each competing for his ear.

ECONOMIST: Donald Regan