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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...
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    Most digital clocks use electronic mechanisms and LCD, LED, or VFD displays. For the blind and for use over telephones, speaking clocks state the time...
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    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...
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  • particularly English speaking, use the 12-hour clock, or a mixture of the 24- and 12-hour time systems. In countries where the 12-hour clock is dominant, some...
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  • Brian Cobby (category Clocks in the United Kingdom)
    exchange worker who, in 1985, became the first male voice of the British speaking clock. Cobby was born in Gravesend, Kent, the son of Amy and Sydney Cobby...
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    numerical equivalent of VIN was 846, and all the caller got was the speaking clock (i.e. 846 is also numerical equivalent of TIM) in the big city 'Director'...
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    Fearne Cotton to help raise money for charity by reading the time on the Speaking Clock. Moyles has provided his voice and/or likeness to a number of films...
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  • common in several English-speaking nations and former British colonies, as well as a few other countries. In English-speaking countries: "12 p.m." usually...
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    deal to promote the production of the first Tinker Bell film, the UK's speaking clock started to use her voice at 0100GMT on October 26, 2008. Furthermore...
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  • Jane Cain (category Clocks)
    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...
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  • recreate the Pat Simmons speaking clock. Around 75 electronic speaking clocks with the Pat Simmons voice were sold. The Speaking Clock machine that was used...
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  • Plot Redders TV movie 2012-2013 All in the Method Rich / Voiceover / Speaking clock / Pablo 5 episodes 2012 Alan Carr's Summertime Specstacular 2 Runner...
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    provide dynamic audio feedback to a user. For example, in a "time of day" speaking clock, concatenation is used to give the correct time by playing the appropriate...
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    effect List of atomic clocks Network Time Protocol Optical clock Primary Atomic Reference Clock in Space Pulsar clock Speaking clock Time metrology Time...
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    radio clock or radio-controlled clock (RCC), and often colloquially (and incorrectly) referred to as an "atomic clock", is a type of quartz clock or watch...
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    sponsor the United Kingdom's speaking clock service between 1986 and 2008, and also sponsored a Millennium Countdown clock at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich...
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  • Sara Mendes da Costa (category Clocks)
    the voice of the UK Speaking Clock, first established in 1936, at 08:00 BST on 2 April 2007. On 23 October 2006, to mark the BT clock reaching its 70th...
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  • T-Bone Burnett Presents The Speaking Clock Revue: Live from the Beacon Theatre is a 2011 live album featuring various musicians such as Elton John, Leon...
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  • percussion, a xylophone, a gamelan (track 2), and recordings of the speaking clock and the Apollo Moon landing. The only vocal is the narrative on the...
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    stations broadcast time signals at the beginning of the hour, and a speaking clock service was also available until October 2019. However, the VNG dedicated...
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    message would be sent to the police by the telephone system used for the speaking clock, who would in turn activate air attack sirens using the local telephone...
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    Lists of time zones Permanent time observation in the United States Speaking clock § United States Time in Arizona (besides the Navajo Nation): 10:38 pm...
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  • enquiries 114 Automated number-busy check 115 Telegram service 117 Speaking clock 136 Information on last incoming call 177 Weather forecast 001 KDDI...
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    Nokia 1600 has a speaking clock, which was a novel feature when the phone was launched in 2005. A user could use the speaking clock by pressing the asterisk...
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    False Identity 2006 Tooth of Crime 2008 T-Bone Burnett Presents The Speaking Clock Revue: Live from the Beacon Theatre 2011 A Place at the Table 2013 The...
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  • List of service numbers Service Number Fire brigade 18 Police 17 Speaking clock 16 Telephone inquiries 12...
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    fifty funniest acts in British comedy. He was the voice of the British speaking clock for two weeks in March 2003 in aid of Comic Relief. Henry voiced Dre...
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  • photographic film and played back under control of the observatory clocks. In 1960, the speaking clock was replaced with one manufactured by Audichron corporation...
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    an Ugly Sister). In 1984, he auditioned to be the voice of the UK's speaking clock. In 1957, he married Eluned Lynne Evans; the couple had four daughters...
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  • systematic error is present if the stopwatch is checked against the 'speaking clock' of the telephone system and found to be running slow or fast. Clearly...
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