Who at Northern.... (Poor quality audio for auto-announcements)

[S101]

Who at Northern uploaded the automated announcements to all the diesel stock that sounds like someone is talking through a dirty sock, and thought, bloody hell that sounds amazing, let's keep it.

 

[DownSlow10]

Used to be some other Yorkshire bloke and he was fine and spoke clearly, before then it was a woman too and clearly spoken aswell. Changes that didn’t need to happen and you are completely right.

 

[Buzby]

Just travelled on 2 Northern DMU’s from Sheffield to Carlisle. The first leg on a 158, as you say was abysmal - even the change in person stating the destination included a pregnant pause and was amateurish in the extreme. It was not as bad from Leeds on a later vintage 158 but still the same long pause before random name generator came up with it.

 

[jfollows]

Yesterday on a 323 I couldn’t tell whether the announcements were in Welsh or in English. Although the station announcements still refer to “Sandback”.

 

[Pinus contorta]

Kirkby-in-Furness is non existent on the 156 announcements. Like when it has a long pause . .. "and please do not use the foot crossing until the train has left the station."But doesn't scroll forwards to this specific station at all!

 

[TT-ONR-NRN]

I believe the voice is now the guy in charge of the customer information systems. So it sounds like both Northern and Great Northern both have poor sounding, to my ears, announcements largely because the people who source them like the sound of their own voices, unfortunately for us.

 

[jamieh27]

I believe the voice is now the guy in charge of the customer information systems. So it sounds like both Northern and Great Northern both have poor sounding, to my ears, announcements largely because the people who source them like the sound of their own voices, unfortunately for us.

The man incharge of the PIS announcements is David Curtis.

 

[TT-ONR-NRN]

The man incharge of the PIS announcements is David Curtis.

Yes, I know. And he's the voice too.
Figures

 

[jamieh27]

Who at Northern uploaded the automated announcements to all the diesel stock that sounds like someone is talking through a dirty sock, and thought, bloody hell that sounds amazing, let's keep it.

It was ment to be a reply to this one but clicked the wrong one