Re: Station announcements, Sydney

["Hubert Lam" <hubert@softhome.net>]

I personally think the SPI/cartridge announcements sound BETTER than new DVA PC
ones. Probably because the guys who program the SRA DVA Console (yes, I went
into control room @ town hall for a peek!) don't know which inflection (high or
low tone) to use- in SPI announcements the names always have falling inflections
whilst most SRA DVA Console programmers just use the one with a high inflection,
and some station names sound really weird- for example, "Merrylands". Most
stations apart from Strathfield would actually say "merylunds" (as it sounds),
but Strathfield (where the SRA DVA Console programmers were obviously brighter
than some others) used another file and it actually sounds like "Merry-lands"
(and that's how SPI/Amiga sounds when Merrylands is announced).



boofheadpaul@yahoo.com.au wrote in message <74fnfo$n4d$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>...
In article <74f2o3$jco$1@metro.ucc.usyd.edu.au>,
  matthew@mail.usyd.edu.au (Matthew Geier) wrote:

>  What they should do is hook the DVA up to the same system as the indicators,
> which in the city stations would mean almost totaly automatic control.

This has gotta be a union thing though, correct?  Otherwise I reckon CityRail
would have gone with an auto system.


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Paul McCabe

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