How to Use speaking voice in a Sentence

speaking voice

noun
  • His speaking voice is just as deep and jagged.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 4 Jan. 2026
  • Even his speaking voice sounds like the records.
    — Alex Ross, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025
  • His gait was steady but slow; his speaking voice firm and controlled.
    — Mike Monroe, New York Times, 6 May 2025
  • Miller has a great speaking voice, like vanilla laced with bourbon.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 28 June 2024
  • So, how does someone present their speaking voice with all that knowledge?
    — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 May 2023
  • Hobert is lanky, with pin-straight strawberry-blonde hair and a deep speaking voice.
    — Carrie Battan, Vulture, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Larson has a booming speaking voice.
    — Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Not their singing voice per se—that would have just been a bonus—but what I was honed in on was their speaking voice.
    — Angela Hatem, Parents, 9 June 2026
  • My rap voice is just a hair above my speaking voice, but Pooh’s voice cuts through everything.
    — Kyle Eustice, SPIN, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Ariana Grande’s speaking voice might just be changed for good thanks to Wicked.
    — EW.com, 2 Jan. 2025
  • May Hong provides Mira’s speaking voice in the movie.
    — Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 15 Nov. 2025
  • Lader began with Lupone’s speaking voice, then rehabbed her singing voice.
    — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2024
  • This is not the first time that Grande’s speaking voice has come under public scrutiny.
    — Evan Rosen, New York Daily News, 18 June 2024
  • Ariana Grande is putting criticism about her speaking voice to rest.
    — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 18 June 2024
  • Kilmer lost his speaking voice in 2014 after his treatment for throat cancer.
    — Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 2 Apr. 2025
  • The hoopla around her speaking voice is hardly the first time Grande has had to battle public perception of her.
    — Zack Sharf, Variety, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Here the hyperbole is delicious, tart, and doubtless truer to the tone of Fuller’s speaking voice.
    — James Marcus, New Yorker, 2 June 2025
  • This production pairs a second, hearing actor with deaf principals as a singing and speaking voice.
    — Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 2 Mar. 2024
  • Botero provided the character's speaking voice, while Mereiz handled the songs.
    — Allison Degrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Jan. 2026
  • Ariana Grande is bewildered by all the attention being paid to her speaking voice these days.
    — Raechal Shewfelt, EW.com, 10 July 2024
  • The generative text evokes a feeling in me not unlike the revulsion of hearing one’s own speaking voice in a recording.
    — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 11 July 2023
  • Norwegian actor Danielsen Lie is presumably putting a kind of twang on his normal speaking voice.
    — Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 19 Oct. 2024
  • Ariana Grande has a perfectly good explanation for the drastic change in her speaking voice.
    — Njera Perkins, Peoplemag, 19 June 2024
  • But Rodgers made a remarkable recovery; there wasn’t even a hint of a slur in his speaking voice throughout our Zoom interview.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Kennedy has publicly discussed how the condition robbed him of his typically strong speaking voice in his early 40s.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Kilmer battled throat cancer in the 2010s that required a tracheotomy which still greatly impacts his speaking voice.
    — Barbara Vandenburgh, USA Today, 2 Apr. 2025
  • He was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2015, and a procedure on his trachea reduced his speaking voice to a whisper.
    — Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 1 Apr. 2025
  • Monroe’s signature breathy speaking voice was actually a tactic the actress used to overcome a childhood stutter.
    — Vogue, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Her singing voice is huge, gorgeous, and pliable—effortlessly leaping from a belt to a shimmer—and her speaking voice is wonderfully distinctive.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2023
  • Cave’s sometimes thin and creaky, sometimes sonorous and self-consciously refined speaking voice certainly had its hypnotic qualities.
    — Mark Mordue, SPIN, 1 Dec. 2023

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