tell vs voice

tell

verb
  • To convey by speech; to say. 

  • To order; to direct, to say to someone. 

  • To instruct or inform. 

  • To narrate. 

  • To reveal. 

  • To reveal information in prose through outright expository statement -- contrasted with show 

  • To count, reckon, or enumerate. 

  • To have an effect, especially a noticeable one; to be apparent, to be demonstrated. 

  • To inform someone in authority about a wrongdoing. 

  • To discern, notice, identify or distinguish. 

  • To be revealed. 

  • To use (beads or similar objects) as an aid to prayer. 

noun
  • A private message to an individual in a chat room; a whisper. 

  • A hill or mound, originally and especially in the Middle East, over or consisting of the ruins of ancient settlements. 

  • A reflexive, often habitual behavior, especially one occurring in a context that often features attempts at deception by persons under psychological stress (such as a poker game or police interrogation), that reveals information that the person exhibiting the behavior is attempting to withhold. 

voice

verb
  • To give utterance or expression to; to utter; to publish; to announce 

  • To assign the voice flag to a user on IRC, permitting them to send messages to the channel. 

  • To act as a voice actor to portray a character. 

  • To fit for producing the proper sounds; to regulate the tone of 

  • To utter audibly, with tone and not just breath. 

noun
  • Sound uttered by the mouth, especially by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered as possessing some special quality or character 

  • The tone or sound emitted by an object 

  • That which is communicated; message; meaning. 

  • Sound made through vibration of the vocal cords; sonant, or intonated, utterance; tone; — distinguished from mere breath sound as heard in whispering and voiceless consonants. 

  • An expressed opinion, choice, will, desire, or wish; the right or ability to make such expression or to have it considered 

  • A particular style or way of writing that expresses a certain tone or feeling. 

  • A particular way of inflecting or conjugating verbs, or a particular form of a verb, by means of which is indicated the relation of the subject of the verb to the action which the verb expresses. 

  • In harmony, an independent vocal or instrumental part in a piece of composition. 

  • A flag associated with a user on a channel, determining whether or not they can send messages to the channel. 

  • One who speaks; a speaker. 

  • The faculty or power of utterance 

How often have the words tell and voice occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )