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To leave Commie, hyper to
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> hope it's not only for sound effects - nerd metal would make
> an excellent
> subject for a webortage...
Hmmm.... :)
> nothing beats the finnish railways' announcements though. i'd
> love to see
> them impelemented in a game. the english ones are my
> favorite, eg. "this
> journey is a non-smoking trip".
It's a classic! Also, some of the announcements have comical rhythmics. Some
of the sound bites sound like they've been added to the system afterwards,
without checking the intonation of the voice.
The one that goes something like "You can get more info about this train
from the info monitors and from the ticket collectors" sounds odd in
Finnish. The mention about ticket collectors is clearly added afterwards and
its intonation is all wrong. Together with the main sentence it sounds like
it was somehow funny to talk to the conductor at all...
Like you should always use the video monitors, but if you're a born loser,
_then_ of course you can talk to human beings too...
> her voice is so unbelievably
> inhuman and
> over-efficient, i get this picture of a russian lady in her
> 40's wearing a
> light blue railway uniform and a scarf, wide lunatic eyes,
> and all bionic
> parts inside. "we will shortly arrive at salo". ("we are all
> going to die.
> please remain calm.")
Her name is Eija Kare. There was a little article about her in HS: (in
Finnish)
http://www.helsinginsanomat.fi/uutiset/juttu.asp?id=20010210KA1&pvm=20010210
&a=1
Let's start Eija Kare cult!
---> Jarmo Lundgren
Multimediatsaari
Helsingin Sanomat, Verkkoliite
p. 09-1227555 / 040-5345868
