MUST VISIT! Telecom enthusiasts sites at:

• Light Straw a true work of lurve...
• The Strowger Telecoms Page Telephone sounds and some (gulp) theory...
• The Web Page You Have Reached Lots more telephone sounds (not just tones)!!!
• The Payphone Directory Lots of telephone announcements from the USA - someone's been busy here!
• Cambridge Electronic Laboratories How to restore old phones PDF download and other info
• The Dutch Online Telephone Museum Great pictures and lots of links
• The Telephone File A gold mine of UK Telephone Information - one of the best!
• Peter Walker's Phone Pages This site has some great photo's of phones
• Telephones UK Quality pictures and information on UK Telephones and other UK telecoms equipment - excellent!
• Telephone Tribute - Super! Lots of info all the way from Atlanta Georgia
• The Strowger Appreciation Site Very good - lots of pictures and sounds here
• Fred's Telephone Pages - Le Téléphone : Histoire, Collection et Passion!
• Phone Trips - lots of recordings here
• Stromcarlson.com - more than just recordings - more like documentaries! Phreaky but polite
  
• Precisio Vision - Has a simple all electronic device for ringing a telephone on stage - also a few telephone rings
  

These last few are sites are also well worth a look...

NEW! Why pay for the speaking clock when you can hear one for free?

and there's quite a lot of interesting reading at OFCOM

Last but not least...

Why not make your own announcements? AT&T's text to speech demonstration will do just that!