Just as she's about to leave, Leo comes running to play her a voice message in which she sounds very happy and romantic.

It doesn't seem possible to send a voice message that far.

"He left me a voice message last night," Valentine said.

The company plans a service to deliver voice messages in e-mail.

There was no voice message involved, just print on the screen.

And customers cannot check their voice messages on a dedicated Web site.

Until 2010, voice messages were thought to be very rare.

In a few years it will be common for computers to play such voice messages directly.

A voice message on a cassette with no context to support it cannot be complete as a record.

But how would he send out a voice message without air?