BEST TELEPHONE VOICES.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 160, 14 September 1916, Page 5

BEST TELEPHONE VOICES.

The best speakers on the telephone ar e actresses, and the worst are military officers and policemen,” said a telephone operator who deals with thousands of “calls” every week.

"Soldiers who are accustomed to giving orders, and policemen, too, develop a way of clipping their words. They also have a lot of ‘blind spots’ in their, That is, they let the intonation drop every now and then, so that you have to seize at fragments of words.

"Actresses have rich, musical voices, no matter how high-pitched they may sound on the wire. This, with a trianed enunciation, makes them ideal tele-phone-speakers. It is cpiite true that, as mentioned in ‘The Daily Mail,’"Americans arc easier to understand than English people, because most of them talk slowly with a certain ‘singsong’ in their voices.”