He had a sweet, low manner of speaking, and pronounced his words as you do: that's less gruff than we talk here, and softer.

He would open the door, blow “three or four or five unquestionably sweet and expert notes on a cornet”—and then disappear.

But their skin conductivity changed consistently even when they thought the chalkboard sound was from music and rated it as less unpleasant.

We saw the beautiful flowers smile (smiling) at us and heard the birds sing (singing) their sweet songs on the trees. The scenery was indeed very pretty (beautiful).

With full control of volume levels handed to the system, the computer could automatically lower the din on one channel and allow the speech to come through as a pleasant relief.