It's almost baffling to think that despite the many ways we can check the time, especially in our display-saturated era, BT's speaking clock still receives roughly 12 million calls each year. Dial 123 ...

AMHERST, Ohio - Mark McKinley has the world's largest collection of talking clocks but it's difficult to determine what time it is. Only a portion of the hundreds of clocks in his Amherst home are set ...

The Talking Clock service is disappearing, and it’s quite possible that few of you will be aware of its passing. One of the staples of twentieth-century technology, the Talking Clock service was the ...

BT has engaged the services of actor Sir Ian McKellen (pictured), best known for his roles as Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit franchises, as well as Magneto in the X-Men films, to become ...

Do you talk to your alarm clock? I do. I was recently in a hotel room, woke up in the middle of the night and said, “Computer. What time is it?” Since my Amazon Echo (which responds to the name ...

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The project aims to build a clock that can talk using the user’s voice while announcing the time. The project aims to build a clock that can talk using the user’s voice while announcing the time. The ...

The latest iteration of the 'speaking clock', invented in France in 1933, at the Paris Observatory - Copyright afp/AFP/File Erika SANTELICES The latest iteration of ...