Vox
Encyclopedia
Vox is Latin for Voice
. It may refer to:
Human voice
The human voice consists of sound made by a human being using the vocal folds for talking, singing, laughing, crying, screaming, etc. Its frequency ranges from about 60 to 7000 Hz. The human voice is specifically that part of human sound production in which the vocal folds are the primary...
. It may refer to:
- VocalsSingingSinging is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
, a common abbreviation, especially in pro audio
Music
- "Vox" (song), a song by Sarah McLachlan
- Vox RecordsVox RecordsVOX Records is a budget classical record label. The name is Latin for "voice."-History:Vox was founded in 1945, starting out with 78-rpm discs, specializing in licensed pressings of classical recordings made in Europe. It was one of the last major recording companies to adopt stereo recording,...
, an American record label - Vox Records (Germany)Vox Records (Germany)VOX Schallplatten- und Sprechmaschinen-Aktiengesellschaft, Berlin was a German record label founded in 1921. One source suggests that it issued the first electrical recordings in Germany in late 1924 or early 1925, presumably recorded by a method other than that of Western Electric, but notes that...
, a German record label - Vox (musical equipment)Vox (musical equipment)Vox is a musical equipment manufacturer which is most famous for making the Vox AC30 guitar amplifier, the Vox Continental electric organ, and a series of innovative but commercially unsuccessful electric guitars and bass guitars...
, maker of amplifers, guitars and organs - VoxtrotVoxtrotVoxtrot was an indie pop band from Austin, Texas, USA. Their first recordings were released in 2003 and their final shows were in June 2010.-Biography:Voxtrot was formed in Austin, Texas by singer/songwriter Ramesh Srivastava in the early 2000s...
, an Indie pop rock band from Austin, Texas - Vox (magazine)Vox (magazine)Vox was a British music magazine, first issued in October 1990. It was published by IPC Media, and was later billed as a monthly sister-magazine to IPC's music weekly, the NME....
, a defunct British music magazine published by IPC Media. - UltravoxUltravoxUltravox is a British New Wave rock band. They were one of the primary exponents of the British electronic pop music movement of the late 1970s/early 1980s. The band was particularly associated with the New Romantic and New Wave movements....
, a British New Wave rock band. - "Vox Humana" (song), a song by Kenny Loggins.
Arts and entertainment
- Mal DuncanMal DuncanMalcolm "Mal" Arnold Duncan, currently known as Vox , is a fictional character, existing in DC Comics' main shared universe...
, comic-book character currently known as Vox - VOX (TV channel), a private German television channel
- Vox (TV network), a Quebec network of community channels
- Vox (XM)Vox (XM)VOX was a channel on the XM Satellite Radio service that specialized in classical music of the voice. It was available on channel 112 on XM and channel 865 on DirecTV. The program director for VOX was Robert Aubry Davis...
, a classical vocal channel on XM Satellite Radio - Vox (The Edge Chronicles)Vox (The Edge Chronicles)Vox is a children's fantasy novel by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell, first published in 2003. It is the sixth volume of The Edge Chronicles and the second of the Rook Saga trilogy; within the stories' own chronology it is the eighth novel, following the Quint Saga and Twig Saga trilogies.-Plot...
, a novel in Paul Stewart's Edge Chronicles series - Vox (journal)Vox (journal)VOX Journal is a literary journal based in Oxford, Mississippi. It was founded in fall 2004 by poet Louis E. Bourgeois, short story writer and musician Max Bishop Hipp, and poet and self-taught artist J. E. Pitts. As of this writing, it has produced three issues, in April of 2005, 2006, and 2007...
, a U.S. independent literary journal - Vox (novel), a 1992 novel by Nicholson BakerNicholson BakerNicholson Baker is a contemporary American writer of fiction and non-fiction. As a novelist, he often focuses on minute inspection of his characters' and narrators' stream of consciousness, and has written about such provocative topics as voyeurism and planned assassination...
- Vox T RadioRadio Vox TVox T is an FM radio station in Iaşi, Romania. The station signed on in March 1990 as the first independent non-public radio station outside Bucharest, and the third in Romania after the change from Socialist system. It operated out of T17 students residence hall, part of the Technical University...
, a radio station in Iaşi, Romania
People
- Vox Day, an American libertarian columnist and author
- Victoria VoxVictoria VoxVictoria Davitt , better known by stage name Victoria Vox, is a singer, songwriter and musician specializing in the ukulele...
, an American singer and ukulele player
Technology
- VOx, Vanadium oxideVanadium oxideVanadium oxide may refer to:* Vanadium oxide , VO* Vanadium oxide , V2O3* Vanadium oxide , VO2* Vanadium oxide , V2O5...
, particularly when used as a detector material in a thermal imaging MicrobolometerMicrobolometerA microbolometer is a specific type of bolometer used as a detector in a thermal camera. Infrared radiation with wavelengths between 7.5-14 μm strikes the detector material, heating it, and thus changing its electrical resistance. This resistance change is measured and processed into temperatures...
. - Vox (blogging platform)Vox (blogging platform)Vox was an Internet blogging service run by Six Apart, which ran from October 26, 2006 to September 30, 2010. Before launching, it had the codename "Project Comet"....
, a weblogging platform by Six Apart - Dialogic ADPCMDialogic ADPCMDialogic ADPCM or VOX is an audio file format, optimized for storing digitized voice data at a low sampling rate. VOX files are most commonly found in telephony applications, as well as an occasional arcade redemption game....
or VOX, audio file format - Voice-operated switch
- HTC S710HTC S710The HTC S710 is a mobile phone manufactured by HTC. As with other HTC models it is often sold "own branded".Some highlights include:* Based on the Windows Mobile 6 Standard platform...
or HTC Vox, mobile phone developed by HTC - VOX (anonymous interactive message), sent via VOXopolis
Businesses and products
- Vox TalentVox TalentVOX TALENT is Canada's non union voice over talent agency representing over 200 of Canada's voice over actors supplying voice over talent to advertising agencies, independent producers, corporate marketing departments, producers and casting directors....
, Canada's non union voiceover talent agency - Vox (vodka)Vox (vodka)Vox Vodka is a 5 times distilled 80 proof wheat vodka made in the Netherlands by Beam Inc.....
, a Dutch vodka - Vox Telecom, a telecommunications company in South Africa
- VOXopolis, website & app where users VOX anonymous messages interactively to each other
- VoX Communications, Corp., a telecommunications company in the United States
Other
- HMS VoxHMS VoxTwo submarines of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Vox, after the Latin for Voice:*HMS Vox , a British U class submarine launched in 1943, that upon completion was transferred to the Free French Navy as the French submarine Curie...
, two submarines of the Royal Navy - Gleeman Vox, a character in the Ratchet & Clank series
- VOX-ATypI classificationVOX-ATypI classificationIn typography, the Vox-ATypI classification makes it possible to classify typefaces in eleven general classes. Devised by Maximilien Vox in 1954, it was adopted in 1962 by the Association Typographique Internationale and in 1967 as a British Standard, as British Standards Classification of...
, a typeface classification system - The Witches' VoiceThe Witches' VoiceThe Witches' Voice is an online information and networking resource for the Wiccan and Pagan community. It is a non-profit organization founded and run by Wren Walker and Fritz Jung in 1997...
or WitchVox, a community driven, neopagan website. - Vox populiVox populiVox populi , a Latin phrase that literally means voice of the people, is a term often used in broadcasting for interviews with members of the "general public".-Vox pop, the man on the street:...
, a term often used in broadcasting for interviews of members of the "general public".