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In Australia, the number 1194 was the speaking clock in all areas. The service started in 1953 by the Post Master General's Department, originally to access the talking clock on a rotary dial phone, callers would dial "B074", during the transition from a rotary dial to a DTMF based phone system, the talking clock number changed from "B074" to 1194.
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.
A second type of clock face is the 24-hour analog dial, widely used in military and other organizations that use 24-hour time. This is similar to the 12-hour dial above, except it has hours numbered 1–24 (or 0–23) around the outside, and the hour hand makes only one revolution per day.
Since deciphering even a simple time code "by ear" was occasionally difficult under field conditions, voice announcements of time and station identification were added to CHU in 1952, using a speaking clock made by Ateliers Brillié Frères of France. Fredrick Martin Meach of the Canadian embassy in Paris recorded the time announcements in ...
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)
The message would be sent to the police by the telephone system used for the speaking clock, who would in turn activate air attack sirens using the local telephone lines. The rationale was to tackle two problems at once; it reduced running costs (it would most likely be used only once in its working life, though it was regularly tested) and the ...
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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.