1000 Digits of Pi, Recited by Jane Barbe, Famous Voice of Telephone Company Recordings

If you came of age dur­ing the 1960s and 1970s, you knew the voice of Jane Barbe, aka “The Tele­phone Lady.” Her voice appeared on tele­phone com­pa­ny record­ings and voice­mail sys­tems across the US. Just lis­ten to this clip, and you will imme­di­ate­ly know who I’m talk­ing about.

Any­way, Ms. Barbe appar­ent­ly had more in her reper­toire than “If you’d like to make a call, please hang up.” A lot more.

Above, we have her recit­ing the first 1,000 dig­its of Pi. The back­sto­ry remains unknown to us. We did some research and came up bone dry. If you know some­thing about the cir­cum­stances behind the record­ing, please let us know in the com­ments sec­tion below. To read along with a tran­script of the record­ing, just click here.

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