We live in a world of telephone, text, IM and email communication where we often never seen each other in person. Given that, its sometimes nice to put a face to the voice. In this case Google is going just that by introducing us to the person behind 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.”
There you have it, Kiki Baessell. And now when you call Google Voice you can at least see an image of the person who was actually speaking the words. Interestingly enough, it seems that one of the reasons she was picked was because she has never done professional voiceover work. Well played Google, well played.
Read [Google Voice Blog]
Good for Google for its creative, non-conventional idea of choosing a non-professional (imagine that!) voiceover artist for the "voice" of Google Voice. Kiki's pleasant, normal and natural way of speaking was my first exposure to Google Voice (as a result of reaching someone's Google voicemail) and I was immediately impressed. Good job Google.