Re: Station announcements, Sydney

[Homer <mdoyle@mail.usyd.edu.au>]

Keep in mind there are no less than three different types of DVA in use at different
stations
each having different interfaces to control them.
The more elaborate, such as the one at Olympic Park apparently has the facility to
actually
choose from different inflections on words, while another has a two-line LCD display
as its
user interface (no monitor), typing in four digit number codes for words and phrases

(some of the more common destinations are short-cutted to letters on the keyboard)
BUT these codes are supplied in the station scroll for every train stopping at the
station - so still not really much excuse to screw it up.


Hubert Lam wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
> Paul McCabe
>
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