Re: SPI announcement sound files

["Eric Cartman" <erk_cartman@yahoo.com>]

Jonathan

The non technical simple explanation with the DVA (you were right, it does
stand for digitalised voice announcement) is that there is a series of
nuymbered words (like station names) and pharses (eg - the train on platform
number 1) and they are constructed by a staff member. There are also some
system wide safety type announcements as well.

BTW, it is possible that the DVA's have been reprogrammed (reconstructed) as
staff learn from their mistakes after going to "DVA school" and using the
system (and listening to the announcements and complaints from passengers)

Eric
www.erk.au.com



Jonathan Boles wrote in message <01bac946$e1e847e0$52e8868b@tfboles>...
>Replaced again? They were replaced by much slower and clearer announcemetns
>early this year, but are they being replaced by even slower ones??!!!
>
>BTW, what does 'DVA' stand for? is it 'digital voice announcement' or
>something.
>
>BTWagain, what 'sets up' the announcement. are the names and generic words
>('first stop', 'via', 'all stations to') generated 'on the fly' by a
>computer then played out, or is there a recording for each and every
>combination of stopping stations?
>
>Hubert Lam <hubert@imap4.com> wrote in article
><831vvs$7jf$1@news1.mpx.com.au>...
>> As mentioned in subject, these have been replaced by never "DVA" sound
>files
>> last Thursday afternoon, except that the station names all have a rising
>> inflection, not a falling one, which results in a very strange sound when
>> things like "Hornsby via Town Hall" is announced. It is also a lot slower
>> than the old messages, and so most of the time the train would have
>departed
>> halfway throughout the announcement being played.
>