ATOS Anne Announcements - Publicly Available?

[cjmillsnun]

I miss the old Robert Lister NSE announcements. His voice was very clear.

 

[stadler]

I miss the old Robert Lister NSE announcements. His voice was very clear.

Yes i agree. Robert Lister was brilliant. I always really liked the BR era announcements. Considering the technology at the time the announcements still sounded very good. They were recorded well.

I liked a lot of the other announcers too. Angela Peberdy was great too. She had a very well spoken RP voice. John Elgar was another great one. He was at quite a few stations including London Victoria up until the early 2000s.

Some examples here of the seven main announcers used in the NSE area in the 80s and 90s:

Infomat - Angela Peberdy:

Infomat - Gordon Reid:

Infomat - Julie Berry:

Infomat - Liz Crowther:

Infomat - Robert Lister:

Ditra - Unknown Female:

https://youtu.be/7z7Xldm6yhk

Ditra - John Elgar:

https://youtu.be/oUzV4riyMJ4

I feel like we have gone downhill with some of the Worldline automated announcements of today which just do not seem as high quality.

 

[bicbasher]

John Elgar was the voice of my childhood when I'd travel from Charing Cross or London Bridge.

 

[londonbridge]

Seeing this thread bumped prompts me to ask, has anyone made anymore progress decoding the .pcc files mentioned in the other, similar Ketech thread?