Nicholas Briggs Nicholas Briggs Nicholas Briggs (born September 29, 1961) is an English actor, writer, director, sound designer, composer and voice actor predominantly associated with the BBC science fiction television series "Doctor Who" and its various spin-offs, particularly as the voice of the Daleks and the Cybermen. He is also the executive producer of Big Finish Productions, for which he has produced, directed and written several audio plays, as well as acting in many of them. Some of Briggs' earliest "Doctor Who"-related work was as host of "The Myth Makers", a series of made-for-video documentaries produced in the 1980s and 1990s by
Voice onset time Voice onset time In phonetics, voice onset time (VOT) is a feature of the production of stop consonants. It is defined as the length of time that passes between the release of a stop consonant and the onset of voicing, the vibration of the vocal folds, or, according to other authors, periodicity. Some authors allow negative values to mark voicing that begins during the period of articulatory closure for the consonant and continues in the release, for those unaspirated voiced stops in which there is no voicing present at the instant of articulatory closure. The concept of voice onset time