The ads feature sad, real-life stories: There is Terrie, a North Carolina woman who lost her voice box.

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This made it hard to swallow and harder to speak, though his voice had long ago sunk to a growl since a botched operation on his voice box in 1993.

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Another potential cause is muscle tension dysphonia, which occurs when the muscles around the larynx, or voice box, are too tight and causes a person to use excess tension while speaking.

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You'll also be amazed at how thoroughly and efficiently you can take care of things when you give your carpal tunnel-wracked paws a rest and let your voice box do the talking.

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My voice mail box is sometimes stuffed more than my email inbox.

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Of 62 patients ranging in age from 11 months to 53 years, nearly half suffered from laryngeal edema -- a potentially fatal reaction in which the throat is obstructed by a swelling voice-box.

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Dragon TV is Nuance's unique voice and natural language understanding platform designed specifically for smart TV, device and set-top box OEMs and service operators.

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He too prefers exit over voice (meaning that he thinks that leaving and joining are better constraints on executive power than the ballot box).

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Traditionally sold as a hardware box, a session border controller is designed to handle the heavy lifting required to reliably transmit voice calls and other media over an IP network, while also protecting networks from malicious attacks.

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When Clayton landed in Bangkok, he flipped on his phone and left a voice message to say he had arrived safely, but he didn't do it into a normal voicemail box.

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