voice mail courier

An individual who approaches someone's desk or workstation in a work environment almost immediately after sending them a voice mail, usually to confirm that the voice mail has been received.

Donald: I just left you a message. Did you get it?

Andrew: Probably, I haven't checked.

Donald: Can you check?

Andrew: Uh yeah, looks like I got it.

Donald: Thoughts?

Andrew: My immediate thoughts are you're a voice mail courier and a douchebag.

by andytheclark August 28, 2009

voice over

(CINEMA || TELEVISION) technique in which an actor reads lines, but is not shown speaking the lines in the video stream. So, for example, we might see Martin Sheen lying in bed in a decrepit hotel in Saigon, and hear his voice say, "Saigon... shit! I was still in Saigon!" But he's narrating in the past tense, and the Martin Sheen onscreen is not saying anything. Or we might see Robert Duvall sitting on the beach, and Martin Sheen's disembodied voice, calmly recalling, "Well, he loved his men... Felt safe with them.."

It serves to fill in events in the story that the director doesn't want to depict on screen; it helps to describe how a character feels about events shown in the scene, or remind viewers that they are currently watching a flashback; it also has been used successfully to explain away absurd holes in the plot that would otherwise ruin the movie.

The voice over (VO) is particularly popular in US cinema and somewhat less so in British and Japanese; non-US movies that are conscious imitating Hollywood cliches will usually use it as well.

Usually, artistic movies made outside the English-speaking world tend to avoid using the VO because it's a non-traditional narrative technique, and it looks lazy. A good screenwriter doesn't need to use it. However, in commercials and TV "journalism" it is almost supernaturally powerful in persuading people of utter nonsense; it's basically a form of posthypnotic suggestion.

The propaganda effect of commercials is massively enhanced by the use of voice over narration; usually the VO script is a grammatical mess and crammed with logical errors. This actually makes it work as a tool of brainwashing, since the logic cannot be followed by the listener.

by Abu Yahya July 15, 2010

voice-com

Half-Life's Voice Communication, used most commonly in Counter-Strike, it proves to be good for communication or anoying the hell out of people.

Tomanator: Who threw that flash-bang???
PigGuy: Shut the fuck up and lay off the mic until puberty!

by PigGuy June 10, 2003

Voice Texting

Using text monikers such as LOL, OMG, ROFLMAO, and others during an actual conversation with another person

Janet: OMG, can you believe it? I mean LOL thats just too funny IMO

Karen: God, please stop Voice Texting me and use your real words

by Honeybearks October 5, 2011

Voice test

A phrase used in Livejournal roleplaying circles to mean playing a character in a low-key, stress-free environment for the purpose of discerning how well one can play said character. Here, "voice" or "character voice" is shorthand for how in-character a player is.

"I'm posting with Cloud on dear_mun as a voice test. Here goes nothing!"

by Phida November 22, 2011

Voice under

A voice over that turns out to be too quiet. Particularly relevant to a translated voice over that is quieter than the dialogue being translated.

What? What's he saying? Man, shoot the sound engineer, he turned out a voice under.

by gumbo23 September 1, 2013

voice bombed

When a bystander intentionally yells a profanity that is picked up and inserted in your text message while you are doing a voice to txt on your phone.

Example: Kareem voice bombed me by yelling "fart" while I was using Siri to text Suzy.

by Toorets April 13, 2014