TELEPHONE ROBOT
CAN TALK, BUT CAN’T HEAR. The “mechanical” telephone girl, a machine based on the principles °l sound-movies, has been installed in >' New York suburban exchange. When the “robot” telephone girl speaks she uses the most per.ect voice obtainable. The machine uses a reproduction of the voice of a pretty Irish brunette, AI 4s Catherine Marie Shaughnessyy wlio lectures on the art ol speaking properly on the telephone. To the telephone user the manner of making a call remains unchanged. He gives the name of the town and the number. A real operator hears, hut instead of repeating the call orally she presses a series of keys spelling out a code to a central office. Then the “mechanical girl” speaks, repeating the number. The apparatus is so arranged that if one “mechanical girl” fails to repeat the. number another unit of the send o is cut in automatically and another “mechanical girl” talks. y
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 June 1931, Page 8
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155TELEPHONE ROBOT Hokitika Guardian, 18 June 1931, Page 8
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