New York Post Online Edition: news: "July 28, 2003 -- Jane Barbe, whose voice was familiar to millions of telephone users across the country who ever dialed a wrong number or had to 'Please listen to the following options' in a voice-mail system, died July 18 in Roswell, Ga., of complications from cancer. She was 74.



Barbe was the queen of telephone recordings, whose voice was heard an estimated 40 million times a day in the 1980s and early 1990s on everything from automated time and weather messages to hotel wake-up calls.



She was heard on 90 percent of 'intercept messages' - the recording played when something is wrong with a phone number - and 60 percent of automated time and temperature calling programs.



During her unusual 40-year career she articulated immortal lines, including, 'I'm sorry, the number you have dialed is no longer in service' and 'Please press 1 for more options.'



Barbe is survived by her husband, John, a daughter, Susan Stubin of Passaic, N.J.; a son, David, of Athens, Ga.; and seven grandchildren.



AP"