[1] Originating from the reality singing competition The Voice of Holland, many other countries adapted the format and began airing their own versions starting in 2010.

Talpa's John de Mol Jr., creator of Big Brother, first created The Voice concept with Dutch singer Roel van Velzen.

Erland Galjaard, a Dutch program director, asked John de Mol about whether he could come up with a format that went a step further than The X Factor.

He wanted the show's image to be about the focus on singing quality alone, so the coaches must be top artists in the music industry.

Contestants are aspiring singers drawn from public auditions (which are not broadcast) and active recruitment.

Coaches will dedicate themselves to developing their singers mentally, musically and in some cases physically, giving them advice, and sharing the secrets of their success.

The contestants who successfully pass the blind auditions proceed to the battle rounds (dubbed The Cut/Callbacks in some versions), where the coaches put two or sometimes three of their own team members against each other to sing the same song together in front of a studio audience.

At the end of the knockout rounds, the strongest members of each coach's roster proceed to the live stage shows.

In the final performance phase of the competition, the top contestants from each team compete against each other during a live broadcast.

Universal Music Group is the general record company associated and affiliated with The Voice format in most countries.

One of the cornerstones of The Voice format is the social media participation via Twitter, Facebook and the specially designed platform "connect".

The number of block has decreased to one per coach The sixth season of the Vietnamese kids' version, Giọng hát Việt nhí, had a new feature called "Mute button".

As its name implies, the muted coach is not allowed to speak, but can still do any kind of body language to convince the contestant to join their team.

On it, a fifth coach would mentor contestants that failed to make it into a team in the blind auditions, and they would compete against each other in a digital series, broadcast on YouTube.

[44] This round was acquired in other countries such as Germany, Indonesia, Spain,[45] Finland, (Dutch) Belgium, Argentina, Brazil, Netherlands, France, Ukraine, Chile, Canada, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and in the Spanish-American version.

In season ten of Australian The Voice, the coaches did not have a limit on the number of contestants they could turn for during the blind auditions.

[46][47] However, in order to balance out numbers, a following round was introduced (straight after the blind auditions), called "The Cut".

Coaches hold a private callback session with their team to make them battle for five spots in the knockouts round.

In this twist, coaches have a silver button who they can press to send the contestant automatically to the battles round (later removed in the twelfth season).

In the eleventh season of Glasat na Bulgaria the Button blocks all the other coaches and the contestants goes to The Battles.

[51] In the twenty-sixth season of the American version of The Voice, a new feature was introduced, dubbed the "Coach Replay."

The seventh season of The Voice of Holland created the non-stop "steal", which means that coaches may replace their stolen contestant as many times as they want until the end of the battles.

This feature was adapted in Poland, Romania,[53] Dutch-Belgium, Portugal, Ukraine, Armenia, the Arab World, Norway, Israel, Vietnam, Germany, the Dominican Republic, Bulgaria, Kazakhstan and France.

Instead of the regular coaches choosing whom of their team artists advance in the competition, this rule belonged to the "supercoach".

When a coach wants to advance both artists to the next round, they can ask and get consent from both contestants to become a duo throughout the rest of the competition.

The third season of The Voice South Africa introduced a new way to conduct the knockouts round: after each contestant's solo performance, the respective coach will have to decide whether they are in the "Safe Zone" – which means qualified for the next round – or the "Danger Zone" – at risk of elimination.

After all members from one team have concluded their performances, the coach will save a number of artists from the "danger zone" to move on to the battles.

The coaches choose one talent in each round und afterwards they decide against with singer they want to fight for a Hot-Seat.

On the other hand, an "All-Stars" edition that is only for previous candidates was announced by the ITV Studios' President Maarten Meijs, in September 2020.