The Operator’s Voice “If You’d Like To Make A Call…”
October 17, 2009 in Celebrities
Have you ever had anything bug you because you just didn’t know what the answer was? I do it all the time. I’ll come up with an interesting question and it will bother me until I know the answer.
But, I normally can find my answers pretty quick. IMDB.com can answer questions like who was in what movie and what else they might have been in as well. Those kinds of questions really bug me.
Wikipedia is a rich source of information and then of course, you always have Google. Google just about anything and you’ll get your answer. You just have to know what is a credible site. Not all information on the internet is accurate. But, it is the quickest way to research.
But now, I have this burning question and I can’t find an answer anywhere. Years ago, there was a lady’s voice on the landline phones who would tell you when you didn’t dial right. “If you’d like to make a call, please hang up and try again…”
Her voice is still used for those calls, but now they have different voices broadcasting different messages. Cell phones have hundreds of messages for whether a phone is out of the area or whether it has been disconnected. They are computerized voices that might have been created at first with a human voice. But, knowing the answer to that question isn’t bugging me.
I want to know who was the lady who recorded her voice to give you, “If you’d like to make a call, please hang up and dial again?”
I know there had to have been a lady somewhere. She may even still be alive. But, she never got credit. And her voice is one of the most famous in the world.
You might be happy to hear thar I did see her on telivision one time. Accually it was a tape recording on a tv segment talking about different dialects and customs in several parts of the coutry. The taping was shown to us in my college Human Communications class. Now the footage was at least two decades old. She was in her mid years at the time. Blonde mullet-like hair, pretty female.
“Im that famous operator’s voice !” she said.
From what I remember she was acually presenting herself as an example for a special voice universally used to make it more comfortable for people all over the world to interpret.
Im sorry but I do not have her name at this time. But ill get back with you.
Awesome! That would be great.
I heard that she is dead
FOUNDER!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t5na44D0Dw
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Barbe
Lets not leave out Pat Fleet. He’s the voice talent to the phrase “we’re sorry it is not nessisary to dial a 1 when calling this number.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAjb-DpBBhM
if these links didn’t come through well, im sorry.
please excuse my poor spelling.
it looks like i had ALOT of bad info. I didnt know Pat Fleet was a female until I saw these vids. Well you learn somthing new everyday. Interesting vids though. enjoy!
Ill have more later.