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A speaking clock or talking clock is a live or recorded human voice service, usually accessed by telephone, that gives the correct time. The first telephone speaking clock service was introduced in France, in association with the Paris Observatory, on 14 February 1933. [1] The format of the service is similar to that of radio time signal services.
A talking clock (also called a speaking clock and an auditory clock) is a timekeeping device that presents the time as sounds. It may present the time solely as sounds, such as a phone-based time service (see " Speaking clock ") or a clock for the visually impaired, or may have a sound feature in addition to an analog or digital face.
Time lady, a female voice heard on a speaking clock that people could dial to find out the current time, down to the second, before the Internet and other options for finding out the time existed. UK: Jane Cain; Pat Simmons (voice actor) Sara Mendes da Costa; U.S.: Jane Barbe; Joanne Daniels; Pat Fleet; Mary Moore (voice actor)
Is it OK to use speaker phone in public? Or take a call in while at the cash register? An etiquette expert breaks down all the phone etiquette tips and rules.
Pat Simmons (1920 – 29 October 2005) was the voice of the United Kingdom's Speaking Clock from 1963 until 1985.. A supervisor at a London telephone exchange, in 1963 Simmons won a £500 competition to replace Jane Cain, whose voice had been used since the service began in 1936.
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A human speaking clock prior to the invention of automated equipment. In the United States of America, Mary Moore was the first national voice of the Bell System's standardized speaking clock [1] and also provided the voice behind many telephone company recordings on equipment manufactured by Audichron.
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