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the music player.
The telephone is your theater, your stage. Your receiver is your curtain. When it goes up, make yourself a star.
Cell phones are like a dog's nipples ... you don't have to shout into them!
The news of life is carried via telephone. A baby's birth, a couple engaged, a tragic car accident on a late night highway - most milestones of the human journey, good or bad, are foreshadowed by the sound of a ringing.
Theophilus Crowe's mobile phone played eight bars of "Tangled Up in Blue" in an irritating electronic voice that sounded like a choir of suffering houseflies, or Jiminy Cricket huffing helium, or, well, you know, Bob Dylan.
You know, I'm a big believer in touch and digital reading, but I still think that some mixture of voice, the pen and a real keyboard - in other words a netbook - will be the mainstream on that.
With the early prototypes, I held the phone to my ear and my ear [would] dial the number. You have to detect all sorts of ear-shapes and chin shapes, skin colour and hairdo ... that was one of just many examples where we really thought, perhaps this isn't going to work.
Audacity, and again, audacity, and always audacity.
Ever hear of a telephone, asshole?
I wish the iPhone people would design one that's black and has two pieces, and it plugs into the wall and you can pick one piece up and talk into it. I tell you, the whole time I had one of those old-fashioned plug-in phones, not once did I misplace it.
I don't dictate, you don't dictate to Stevie Wonder, not successfully.
I will not be at the mercy of the telephone!
My first recollection is that of a bugle call.
The phone collapsed distances, just as the radio did, and, like the radio, it relied on the miracle of imagination: one had to concentrate deeply, plunge headlong into it.
I can kind of envision one person with a lot of machines, tapes, and electronic set-ups ... si<>ng>ngng>i <>ng>ngng> or speaki<>ng>ngng> and usi<>ng>ngng> machines ...
Left alone with the dial tone ... excuse me, operator, why is no one listening?
The telephone voice is but a seduction, a bread crumb to an appetite.
The voice will guide you-will tell you what to do. In order to do that, you must be quite sensitive with the instrument and accept this daily conversation with your voice.
The telephone is the most important single technological resource of later life.
My cellphone calls random people.
Speaking in a common tongue, speaking through guitars and drums.
Mr. Watson - Come here - I want to see you.
[First intelligible words spoken over the telephone]
I would have done anything for an old fashioned phone right about now. Instead I have to suffice with pushing the End Call button really hard
Our daily life is filled with electronic pianos, ring tones, the disembodied voice giving you your bank balance over the telephone. Even silence can be electronic, courtesy of sound-canceling headphones.
I wanted to be able to write in the voice that I talk to my friends and assume that everybody would know what I was talking about.
Big companies, which spend tens of billions of dollars annually on 'call centers' to take orders and provide customer support, increasingly rely on speech recognition not just to handle requests for information but to process customer orders.
Grand telegraphic discovery today ... Transmitted vocal sounds for the first time ... With some further modification I hope we may be enabled to distinguish ... the "timbre" of the sound. Should this be so, conversation viva voce by telegraph will be a fait accompli.
The extraordinary triumph of the cellphone among India's poor stemmed from its ability to enable a most mundane human need, which is to chat with other people. And when the poor chat, it is not always about curing a child of diarrhea.
[Answering the phone] Hello, this is a recording, you've dialed the right number, now hang up and don't do it again.
I used my mother's radio as a PA system. I'd take the telephone, the speaking part, and take those two leads off and lead them into the radio and the sound would come out of the speaker.
I don't have a computer. I am the Luddite of rock'n'roll, I don't have a portable phone. I write things down.
Enterprising law-enforcement officers with a warrant can flick a distant switch and turn a standard mobile phone into a roving mic or eavesdrop on occupants of cars equipped with travel assistance systems.
By the way," he said. "You know that little black thing that you carry around? It rings and beeps and stuff?" "My phone?" "Try using it.
I have a Chamberlain I bought from some surfers in Westwood many years ago. It's an early analog synthesizer; it operates on tape loops. It has 60 voices - everything from galloping horses to owls to rain to every instrument in the orchestra.
A sound waiting to be a word.
Our cellphones can do everything, but they're bad at letting us talk to each other.
Quick: noise made by a dyslexic duck
Automated call centers are only the most obvious way speech recognition will be used. The software is now becoming sophisticated enough to identify speakers through 'voiceprints,' akin to fingerprints, eventually reducing the need for personal identification numbers.
Wonderful invention, the phonograph. Keeps a man alive long after he's dead.
Phone is no longer simply a method of communicating with others, but a thread of hope, a way of believing that you're not alone, a way of showing others how important you are.
I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone.
Need for a "speaker for the dead" and for the living.
I like the sound a typewriter makes.
On mobile phones: "It looks like a TV remote fucked a little typewriter and this is the bastard offspring
Band above her and calls to somebody she
We have caller ID. We know who you are. If we wanted to talk to you, we would have picked up, but obviously we didn't. If you have anything at all that's important to say, you'll have to say it on the machine.
Talking on a landline with no interruptions used to be an everyday thing. Now it's exotic; the jewel in the crown.
We don't use phones anymore in this day and age, yet she still phones things in.
It's hard to think of any tool, any instrument, any object in history with which so many developed so close a relationship so quickly as we have with our phones.
Writing at its best is simply taking dictation from your soul.
I had a job transcribing a biotechnology-litigation seminar. You put headphones on and fast-forward and stop with your feet. There were a lot of 'um's.'
talking into her phone.
I have always looked upon a telephone as an official kind of machine which you prepared for with fasting and prayer, and only had recourse to when strictly necessary for important business.
As lower-cost phones begin to penetrate, they'll become the educator and physician everywhere on the planet.
I got an answering machine for my phone ... Now, when I'm not home and somebody calls me up ... they hear a recording of a busy signal.
You're stuck in front of the microphone. You can't use your hands. I like to do things.
I talk to my typewriter and that is what I've been working on for 40 years-how to write for talking.
The voice collects and translates your bad physical health, your emotional worries, your personal troubles.
I'm only just learning what language to use when I want my microphone turned down, you know, because it's all so new to me. It can be quite difficult on a daily basis to communicate with the people I work with, so I'm just looking forward to knowing more.
I don't like sitting still at a desk and often conduct business on my Blackberry or in walking meetings.
Tape reading is a lost art that today is not very useful.
Some easy-listening Muzak came onto the phone. I held it away from my ear. If you listened close for long, it gave you cavities.
Typing is the future of talking and to don't forgot and brother of feature.
When you are touched by a calling, answer on the first ring. As time passes the volume decreases until it is silenced forever by our allotted time.
You draw characters speaking loud and clear but you're not hearing them.
Now, Muriel Spark is said to have felt that she was taking dictation from God every morning
sitting there, one supposes, plugged into a Dictaphone, typing away, humming. But this is a very hostile and aggressive position. One might hope for bad things to rain down on a person like this.
A mobile phone needs a manual in the way that a teacup doesn't
I was dictating to my mother when I was 5.
If you want to speak to someone you cannot touch, see, or hear, the voice of love will transmit with or without a phone. It crosses all borders and travels through time and walls.
She was whispering into it in some language that sounded like butterflies drowning in honey.
Who would have thought that the telephone would bring back drawing?
All you need to say to me
All you need to say to me
Is call (call)
And I'll be curled on the floor
Hiding out from it all
And I won't take any other call
This is what my
voice sounds like
I don't need to be
talking to
someone else
To hear it
The telephone gives us the happiness of being together yet safely apart.
The Bat Phone to the Universe, some kind of Iva-only, open-round-the-clock special channel to the divine.
Do you know what is our problem? We know everything about our weapons, but we know nothing about how to use a telephone.
For people who like peace and quiet: a phoneless cord.
I am full of admiration for the technologists who have developed all sorts of gadgets for the purpose of improving communications. However, I believe that all these fascinating machines are complementary to, and not substitutes for, books and the printed word.
I don't have any system. I dictate a lot, through a machine, and I also have a secretary. But I used to type just like everybody else.
The best, most natural dialogue is usually written as if the writer is listening to dictation. You might get stuck on any particular point and have to question yourself; but normally, dialogue writes itself.
The still small voice is wanted.
You can't even imagine how it felt to have a cassette that you could take with you with a microphone so you could put down an idea and not have to hum it a million times to remember what it was.
The advent of the mobile phone was a disaster. We are forced to listen, open-mouthed, to other people's intimate conversations. Increasingly, we are all in our virtual bubbles when we are out in public, whether we are texting, listening to iPods, reading or just staring dangerously at other people.
I have never received a telephone call that justified the excitement and fuss of the electronics involved. If I can't see somebody I love, for instance, such as a daughter, or a son, I would rather receive a letter.
The interruptions of the telephone seem to us to waste half the life of the ordinary American engaged in public or private business; he has seldom half an hour consecutively at his own disposal - a telephone is a veritable time scatterer.
What I see in the book is an exquisite form of technology: one that doesn't require a power source and can be passed from hand to hand and lasts a lot longer than an electronic reader.
A noise came from the phone that resembled the sound of a howler monkey having an ice cube inserted into its rectum
The telephone becomes an instrument of torture in the demonic hands of a beloved who doesn't call.
Twitter. It's not a good sound, is it? If it were worth doing, there would be a better word for it.
Letters are venerable; and the telephone valiant, for the journey is a lonely one, and if bound together by notes and telephones we went in company, perhaps - who knows? - we might talk by the way.
Entering the phone booth, he did a phone thing.
Ring-ring-ring.
Many of my characters first came through to me as voices. That's why I use a tape recorder.
The distance of a voice, is only a short time away from touch.
I have a Blackberry which I use, but I am one of those people who can only type on it with one hand.
It's sort of my fun to sing along with records and imitate people who are on the telephone that have different ways of speaking.
What a sour little doodad the telephone is, and what little good news we get from it!
What I like best about cell phones is that I can talk to myself in the car now and nobody thinks it's weird.
And where is the speaker? Is it only a voice? Oh! I cannot see, but I must feel, or my heart will stop and my brain burst. Whatever - whoever you are - be perceptible to the touch or I cannot live!
A humming sound alerted him to a message on his cell phone. He looked at it.
'She said yes'.
Yes! Yes! Yes!
This typewriter is the only one that has listened to me throughout the years, the only one who wants to know the girl beneath my layers.