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Re: Griffith/Canberra Xplorer and Ms DVA



Quite interesting, and you'd think that after 000's  being spent on a new
'voice' they'd get right. The canberra extension is a shocker alright! She
sounds like she was speaking to a 3 year old on Play School....

--
Mitch

"the train on platform 3 goes to first stop mossvale then goulburn yass
junction, cootamundra, junee then all stations to and also goes to canberra
stopping at mittagong bowral mossvale bundannoon goulburn tarago queenbeyan
canberra"


"Railwavs" <wavs@ihug.com.au> wrote in message
8pcsf5$vtt$1@bugstomper.ihug.com.au">news:8pcsf5$vtt$1@bugstomper.ihug.com.au...
> Remember how State Rail spent lots of money updating their DVA to the much
> improved, empathising female voice? Well you will be pleased to know that
> after spending all that money for a new voice, and changing nearly every
> station in the network to "female" standard, that not a single new station
> appears to have been recorded!
>
> We witnessed the passing of the inaugural Griffith/Canberra Xplorer at
> Campbelltown today. It went through at 0925 :-) The announcement that
played
> for this service was ... different. If you would like to take a listen, it
> is located at http://www.railpage.org.au/railwavs/ in the
Sydney/Countrylink
> section.
>
> Regards,
>
> Glenn
>
> --
> Glenn Jackson-Bethell
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