The sound of a quiet catastroph[e], of social control as such, rather than just the ordinary running of things. This particular construction of gender – albeit of a disembodied, ghostly kind – would make the recorded female voice a kind of cover story for a normalcy that is in fact a state of emergency, of crisis, of barbarism and capitalism. 

...the female voice is employed in public space to signify central power in what is referred to as soft coercion. Here, the female voice is seen to provide a respectable, motherly façade to coercive power, that represents the ideal of late capital, if not the bodies it benefits.