English

Noun

Dalek voice ‎(plural Dalek voices)

1. Harsh, throaty, staccato, monotone voice.
   • 1982, Jakov Lind, Travels to the Enu: Story of a Shipwreck, page 60

     Burk replied in his husky Dalek voice without looking at the King but also without any trepidation: 'I was christened Herbert Burk.'

   • 1984, Eileen Dewhurst, The House that Jack Built, page 40

     And it was something just to have it to look forward to, to think about instead of thinking about the Dalek voice. I have your notebook.

   • 1985, Punch, 288: 11

     […] eyes and a Dalek voice, and its dreadful polished face keeps swivelling towards me; it is an iron Archie Andrews, but I do not have to make it speak.

   • 1988, New Scientist, 118: 79

     "Now press button A," a Dalek voice tells someone who is trying to set the video recorder to tape a TV programme for later viewing.

   • 1994, Buddhist Society (London, England), The Middle Way, volumes 69-70, page 120

     Sometimes one seems to hear it being read out by a dalek-voice

   • 1997, Bruno MacDonald, Pink Floyd: through the eyes of...the band, its fans, friends, and foes, page 310

     You know, this Dalek voice says, "The-bonnet's-open, you-are-low-on-fuel, the-engine-tem-perature-is-high, we're-not-going-to-make-it-on-this-one-Nick, we'll-be-walking-after-this-corner."

   • 1998, Fred Inglis, Raymond Williams, page 260

     Many questions were literary concoctions, edited from conversation into rather stiff print (One review referred to our 'Dalek voice'.)

   • 2004, Graham Lord, Niv: the authorized biography of David Niven, page 240

     Hawkins was to have a device implanted in his throat to help him speak in a 'strange Dalek voice ', as his wife put it, but the operation gave him another seven years of life.

   • 2005, P. D. Shelley, Sugar and Spice, page 171

     Is your name Oscar Lois Anderson?' Her Dalek voice echoed eerily through the black emptiness of the warehouse.

   • 2005, Tim Heald, Death and the D'Urbervilles, page 244

     'This is she,' said the Dalek voice. 'Good evening,' said Tudor, 'it's Tudor Cornwall, University of Wessex.'

   • 2008, Rick Snoman, Dance Music Manual: Tools, Toys and Techniques, page 121

     The Dalek voice isn't just for Dr Who fans as it can be used in place of a vocoder to produce more metallic style voices that are suitable for use in any dance genre.

Related terms

• Dalek

See also

• Dalek on Wikipedia.Wikipedia