![]() Under which this service is provided to you. All content of the Dow Jones branded indices © S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC 2018Ĭable News Network. Standard & Poor's and S&P are registered trademarks of Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC and Dow Jones is a registered trademark of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC. Dow Jones: The Dow Jones branded indices are proprietary to and are calculated, distributed and marketed by DJI Opco, a subsidiary of S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and have been licensed for use to S&P Opco, LLC and CNN. Chicago Mercantile Association: Certain market data is the property of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. Market indices are shown in real time, except for the DJIA, which is delayed by two minutes. Barbe retired from voice recording in February 2003 and died five months later. (Yes, people used to call a number to set their clocks).ĭecades later, she began recording voicemail greetings for Octel Communications, now part of Avaya. Known as "The Time Lady," she also recorded the time for the National Bureau of Standards' Time Signal call-in service. Jane Barbe began recording phrases such as "The number you have dialed is not in service," beginning in 1963 for Electronic Communications Inc. ![]() ![]() Wrong number: If the recording you hear when you dial a wrong number sounds a bit dated, that's because it is. "You've Got Mail" was used for the title of a blockbuster romantic comedy, which Elwood helped promote. Karen Edwards told the eventual AOL CEO about her husband's profession, and she had him record a handful of phrases on a cassette tape in his living room: "Welcome," "File's Done," "Goodbye," and the most famous, "You've Got Mail." Case said he wanted to use a voice recording to notify people when they receive email. The voice actor's wife Karen worked for Quantum Computer Services when she overheard CEO Steve Case talking about what would eventually become the software for AOL. Amazon Alexa, Samsung Bixby, Google Assistant, Apple Siri, Microsoft’s Cortana, IBM Watson and other virtual assistants are advertised as a cross between your friend, your servant, your helpful. In a cameo, Leatherman confronted Kramer at the end of the episode.ĪOL ( AOL) bought Moviefone in 1999, but Leatherman still works for the company, voicing the phone service and performing six-second reviews for the website.ĪOL mail: The fact that you recognize Elwood Edwards' voice is the result of dumb luck. Leatherman became a quasi-celebrity after his enthusiastic greeting became a major plot line in a 1995 episode of "Seinfeld." In the TV show, Kramer's new phone number was just one digit off the number for Moviefone.Īfter receiving countless calls from people dialing the wrong number, Kramer opts just to read the movie listings himself. Moviefone: "Hello! And welcome to Moviefone!" The greeting for the still-operational telephone movie listing service is voiced by Moviefone's nasally creator Russ Leatherman. Rain's voice wasn't used for the spot, but the actor who voiced HAL in the commercial was a dead-ringer for him. HAL 9000 (traduit en CARL 500 en version française) est un personnage de fiction, un supercalculateur doté dintelligence artificielle.Il a été conçu pour gérer de manière autonome les fonctions vitales du vaisseau spatial Discovery One, en mission dans lespace vers la planète Jupiter. Even Siri pokes fun of HAL - just ask the assistant to "open the pod bay doors."Īpple ( AAPL, Fortune 500) also used HAL 9000 in a 1999 Macintosh commercial, taking a jab at IBM ( IBM, Fortune 500) and Microsoft ( MSFT, Fortune 500) Windows PCs for the Y2K bug. I'm afraid I can't do that" has been referenced and parodied dozens of times in popular culture. ![]() HAL 9000: Douglas Rain, the Canadian actor who voiced HAL 9000 in 2001: "A Space Odyssey," was among the first famous computer voices. ![]() But there are some others throughout the years that could rival her digital audio fame. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family," the Stratford Company said.Bennett's voice may be the most recognized in tech today. "Douglas shared many of the same qualities as Kubrick's iconic creation precision, strength of steel, enigma and infinite intelligence, as well as a wicked sense of humor," Antoni Cimolino, artistic director of the Stratford Festival, told The London Free Press. When HAL is finally shut down - the computer famously singing "Daisy Bell" as Rain's sonorous voice gradually fades away. Mondello continued, "The thing that captured the audience's imagination back then more even than a chatty computer decades before Siri and Alexa was that unnervingly, HAL had a mind of his own." The audience learns that in a sequence that's nonverbal, a shot from HAL's point of view that zeroes in on the astronauts mouths because Kubrick wanted to tell the story not with words but with majestic, peripheral-vision-filling images." "I remember the chill of realizing HAL's unblinking red eye could read lips. As NPR's movie critic Bob Mondello said earlier this year: ![]()
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