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- Voice Definitions and Ranges - Explains how the names of polyphonic parts were adapted to identify voice types, with emphasis on the tenor and countertenor.
- Special Considerations in the Training of the Bass Singer - Page from VoiceTeacher.com defines differences between basso profundo, basso cantablie (or lyrical bass), and bass-baritone.
- History of the Tenor Voice - Paper from the first international conference on Physiology and Acoustics of Singing (PAS), held in the Netherlands in 2002.
- Tenorland - Biographies, links, and sound clips of the great tenors.
- (Un)official Countertenor Homepage, The - Directory of mini biographies of countertenors. Other music links.
- Urban Dictionary: Contralto - Offers several informal definitions contributed by submitters.
- Wikipedia: Baritone - Defines the singing range as lower than tenor but higher than bass, with subclassifications including lyric, bel canto and dramatic.
- Wikipedia: Soprano - Lengthy article describes vocal quality and typical range for subtypes from coloratura to dramatic, with a list of soprano roles in the operatic and musical theater repertoire.
Wikipedia Articles
- Secure voice - Secure voice (alternatively secure speech or ciphony) is a term in cryptography for devices which are designed to provide voice encryption for voice communication over a range of communication types such as radio, telephone or IP.
- VoIP recording - Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) recording is a subset of telephone recording or voice logging, first used by call centers and now being used by all types of businesses. There are many reasons for recording VoIP call traffic such as: reducing company vulnerability to lawsuits by maintaining recorded evidence, complying with laws, increasing security, employee training and performance reviews, verifying data, ...
- 100BaseVG - 100BaseVG is a 100 Mbit/s Ethernet standard specified to run over four pairs of category 3 UTP wires (known as voice grade, hence the "VG"). It is also called 100VG-AnyLAN because it was defined to carry both Ethernet and token ring frame types.
- Baritenor - "Baritenor" is a slang word describing a male voice whose tessitura lies between the baritone and the tenor. The word is frequently used to describe one of the most common male musical vocal types, rather a pop singer than a true operatic baritone with an upward extension into tenor territority and with a baritonal quality.
- RingScan - Nielsen RingScan is a weekly point-of-sale tracking service of ringtones and is offered by Nielsen Mobile, a division of a Nielsen Entertainment. RingScan currently reports on polyphonic, master and voice ringtones and will expand to include ringbacks and other types of ringtones.