The new voice of Google Voice
June 28th, 2010 | Published in Google Voice
If you’ve called your Google number to listen to your voicemail over the last couple days, you may have noticed that things sounded a bit different. The new voice that’s greeting you is Kiki Baessell, a fellow Googler with a friendly voice who helped us record new automatic voice messages. When she’s not helping us out, she spends her days fighting spam and abuse in Google’s consumer products.
Kiki has absolutely no experience doing professional voiceover, which is exactly why we picked her — we wanted a pleasant, familiar voice that we wouldn’t mind listening to each time we called to check voicemail.
Here’s a sample of Kiki in action:
Kiki has absolutely no experience doing professional voiceover, which is exactly why we picked her — we wanted a pleasant, familiar voice that we wouldn’t mind listening to each time we called to check voicemail.
Here’s a sample of Kiki in action: