Sound the way you want the character to sound.

Often, though, characters sound more like spokesmen than victims.

Perhaps it is a function of the novel's experimental spirit that all its characters sound essentially alike.

But if a novelist's characters don't sound like real people, he's in trouble by any standards.

Mr. Lehane was already a fan of the show and knew how the character should sound.

His characters sound like real people with vivid imaginations.

Sometimes the characters sound like immigrants speaking a second language: "My family want to part us."

These characters are used to write final consonants and sounds that cannot be expressed using conventional katakana.

The books never had to stipulate how the single-attribute characters might sound, but at Five, they've confronted the issue with gusto.

The character, a large white man, thinks he's the real Michael Jackson - and sounds just like him.