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Old November 12th 06, 11:10 PM posted to uk.transport.london
Jonathan Morris Jonathan Morris is offline
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Boltar wrote:
Why did the redo it anyway, was it because of the T5 extension?
Surely it would have made more sense to use a speech synthesizer
anyway instead of digitised audio,then no re-recording necessary.
Just type in the new phrase and you're done. Its not like they sound
like Speak & Spell these anymore so why arn't these systems used?


Because if you listen to the 'man' at Kings Cross, you'll see that
there are good systems and bad systems. LUL seems to have bought the
bad system, although obviously it can be fixed through software. When,
I do not know.

Maybe at the same time that they can make the gates work properly...

Jonathan