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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.
Ethel Jane Cain (1 May 1909 – 19 September 1996) was a British telephonist and actress, and the original voice of the speaking clock in the United Kingdom.. Working at London's Victoria Exchange, she was appointed on 21 June 1935 following a competition among GPO telephonists; there were nine finalists in total and the adjudication panel included leading actress Sybil Thorndike and Poet ...
Audichron Company was a company founded in the 1930s by John Franklin in Doraville, Georgia, [1] to produce the Audichron, a talking clock. [2] By the 1970s, there were thousands of Audichron time-of-day announcers in use all over the world. Audichron had also developed a machine to announce the temperature. During the 1970s and 1980s ...
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.
Never heard of this EU regulation on 3 figure numbers... here in the UK, the Speaking Clock is 123. 91.84.123.97 ( talk ) 22:25, 22 March 2009 (UTC) [ reply ] The only 3-digit code specified by EU Directives that I'm aware of is 112 for emergency services.
Audichron was a talking clock, or a time announcer which was developed and produced by the Audichron Company, starting in the 1930s.There were several types of Audichron machines including the stand time piece (STM), M12, temperature machine (TEMP) and the Comparator.
Accurist became the first company to sponsor the United Kingdom's speaking clock service between 1986 and 2008, [1] and also sponsored a Millennium Countdown clock at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, which counted down the last 1,000 days before the year 2000 at the historic observatory.