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[Pulcinella]

Is anyone else missing Mal’s BaL programme summaries from the last series on the forum (he listened so we didn’t have to)? Not that I can blame him if he’s decided to give recent programmes a miss.

Good point: well remembered.
Come back Mal, and save us all the heartache.

[Serial_Apologist]

Could be, our car satnav has Penny Gore (I think) telling us how to get there.

I often think of the woman who recorded all the announcements used on trains: how long did it take for her to record all the possible combinations of stations, directions, stops on the entire network? Doe she have owership of the copyright? Is she paid royalties? Did she need counselling?

[doversoul1]

I often think of the woman who recorded all the announcements used on trains: how long did it take for her to record all the possible combinations of stations, directions, stops on the entire network? Doe she have owership of the copyright? Is she paid royalties? Did she need counselling?

Surely all those regular announcements on trains and in stations are computer generated?

[HighlandDougie]

Is anyone else missing Mal’s BaL programme summaries from the last series on the forum (he listened so we didn’t have to)? Not that I can blame him if he’s decided to give recent programmes a miss.

Yes indeed. I’ve been - guiltily - wondering whether he feels that he has been chased away. I hope not but. I much miss his deconstruction of Saturday morning’s BaL.

[Nick Armstrong]

Is anyone else missing Mal’s BaL programme summaries from the last series on the forum (he listened so we didn’t have to)? Not that I can blame him if he’s decided to give recent programmes a miss.

[Serial_Apologist]

Surely all those regular announcements on trains and in stations are computer generated?

They sound pretty human to my ears, dovers!

[doversoul1]

They sound pretty human to my ears, dovers!

I think things have improved quite a bit since the days of Captain Kirk and Mr Spock

[visualnickmos]

Yes indeed. I’ve been - guiltily - wondering whether he feels that he has been chased away. I hope not but. I much miss his deconstruction of Saturday morning’s BaL.

Yes - where is he? I hope he decides to return in a blaze of glory. I thoroughly enjoyed his insightful and entertaining 'write-ups'. After the dreaded two-fers became the norm, I looked forward to his contributions on here, as a highlight of my day! Musically speaking, I should add....

[mikealdren]

They sound pretty human to my ears, dovers!

I understand that the voices are real voices recorded, the sequence of words etc. is computer generated.

[mikealdren]

Could be, our car satnav has Penny Gore (I think) telling us how to get there.

We changed the voice on our old TomTom to 'Tim' but I got into trouble for saying that I simply couldn't trust a woman to give us directions...

[vinteuil]

I understand that the voices are real voices recorded, the sequence of words etc. is computer generated.

... yes. The underground nearest here has Circle and also Hammersmith & City Line trains. There was clearly a tiny error in the cutting-up of the words, so as a result the announcements have 'This a pCircle Line train' and 'This is a pammersmith & City Line train'.

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[cloughie]

... yes. The underground nearest here has Circle and also Hammersmith & City Line trains. There was clearly a tiny error in the cutting-up of the words, so as a result the announcements have 'This a pCircle Line train' and 'This is a pammersmith & City Line train'.

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I like the idea of a ‘Pamela Smith and City Line’.

[Zucchini]

Local dialect, Panters old boy ...

[antongould]

A radio review in the Spectator - “ Top Bantz “ by Richard Bratby .... posting the link has defeated me ...... it is his view on Building A Library and This Classical Life. On the former we find “ ... but McGregor handles his guests with the minimum of fuss, intervening to elucidate technicalities .... There’s much talk of Radio 3’s intellectual decline, but Building a Library still assumes that listeners can infer meaning from context.”
He ends the review “Like Building A Library, This Classical Life leaves you with a list of discoveries, and a sense of having glimpsed inside the workings of an art. I smiled right through it.”

[DracoM]

Blimey! Listening to a different R?