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Article: Higher Pitch Shatters Glass Ceiling // Female Voice Takes Over in Automation
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- May 4, 1995
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NEW YORK A former secretary named Linda has risen to the top of
corporate America. Or at least her voice has.
Now Linda's voice, the soft-spoken woman heard in elevators made
by Otis Elevator Co., is taking over a once male-dominated industry.
More and more companies are replacing the male voices in their
elevators with female voices. And those purchasing new elevators
more often request that it have a female voice.
"The trend now is that the female voice is the most popular,"
said Sharon Mullings, software engineer at Otis Elevator, the world's
leading elevator company and a unit of United Technologies Corp.
"Anyone updating their systems does it with a female voice."
Customers ...