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climberskier t1_ixwicfs wrote

It's really too bad. With the new orange line trains the T finally had a chance to have consistent automated announcements throughout the entire system: and instead they went "full Keolis commuter rail" and decided to use crappy text-to-speech instead. WTF.

What's even dumber is Frank clearly recorded the new platform announcements of "The next train to Union Square is now arriving". So why couldn't they pay him to be in the recording booth just a little longer to do the rest?

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just_planning_ahead t1_ixwmpcj wrote

Speculation, but the fact Frank's voice is used to announced the next train to Union Square tells me that it was probably not about skimping out at the recording booth. Someone bought him there there and he voiced his lines.

What it does makes me suspect is various decision makers are not in sync. Some took the effort to contact Frank for his voice, got it recorded, and used it for various places. But other decision makers are not aware or don't care so they didn't took the effort to get Frank Ogelsby's voice installed but just stipulated to use text-to-voice to announce stations.

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shawarmacake t1_ixyqrsj wrote

I submitted a complaint on the T's website. It probably won't do anything but meh this sounds really bad.

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disco_t0ast t1_ixyys9s wrote

Of all the complaints they're likely fielding currently, that will not rank highly on their list for sure.

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barc2009 t1_ixz0mms wrote

It will if a thousand people do it.

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disco_t0ast t1_ixz0tqu wrote

This is the T. Not likely. They aren't suddenly going to care about the opinions of the passengers when they never have before.

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