This reminds me of how my grandmother used to leave voicemails in a robotic, staccato voice so that the answering machine could understand her if the machine's

This reminds me of how my grandmother used to leave voicemails in a robotic, staccato voice so that the answering machine could understand her if the machine's default robot voice picked up the phone. To her, the answering machine's voice is an instruction of what type of input the machine needs. To us, of course, the answering machine's voice is just a product of the sad state of answering machine voice technology.