Biography

Darby Bailey is an American technologist, voice-over artist, musician, songwriter, writer/producer, filmmaker, and businesswoman.

She is most known as the 'Voice of Tellme'. Her voice has been heard billions of times by telephone callers in the U.S. since she first started voicing phone systems in 1999. The Silicon Valley company, Tellme Networks, Inc. modeled Darbot, their speech recognition system, on her voice in 1999. Sold to Microsoft in 2007, her voice then became part of many other automated voice response systems, including Ford Sync, inside Ford vehicles, among others. As of 2024, she recorded her last IVR prompt for the systems that started in 1999, maintaining coherence and tone of voice for 25 years for American Express, AT&T, Fidelity Investments, Hartford Life, UPS and many other U.S. companies. She voice possibly a million concatenated audio phrases for many Fortune 100 and 500 Companies over her 25 year tenure.

In 2025 she earned a Ph.D. in Communication from Regent University after earning an MBA in Information Technology from Western Governors University in 2019. She spent 4 years working for the State of Utah as a Sr. Data Analyst and Sr. Data Engineer, earning two governor's commendations for her work in complex data and fiscal analysis tool building and reporting. She also worked for 5 years at the University of Utah with the National Center for Voice and Speech and the Second Language Teaching and Research Center (L2TReC). Darby also holds a BA in Creative writing from Antioch University Los Angeles, and a Graduate Certificate in Information Systems from the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah.

As a musician/songwriter and music publisher, her music has appeared in film and television, including on NBC, E!, and Oxygen, through Universal Music.

As an interdisciplinary artist, she has held art shows in Venice, CA and Salt Lake City, UT for both her illustrations and experimental music theatrics.

As an actress, she trained for ten years with Sam Christensen Studios in Burbank, CA, with Second City Los Angeles, and others in San Francisco and Los Angeles.

She served on the board of Utah Women in Film & Television for four years.
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