Voice of phone messages silenced. Jane Barbe’s voice is possibly one of the most recognizable voices in the world. She is the recorded voice of most of the intercept recordings. She recorded time, temperature, weather, and many announcements and greetings (listen – 1.3 MB Realaudio sample). It’s quite possible that she was the personification of “Ma Bell” or, at least she was in the last 40 years. Before that, someone elses mother actually handled things.