Announcement Video #1

[ea90744]

lol love it... upload more

[imdanumber1]

I liked Melissa Kliner's announcements. I wish they would have kept them.

[HplusG]

I still don't understand why they removed Melissa Kleiner-Cohen's announcements on the 5.

[Jkw718]

Did the 2 train have these "old" announcements too?

[TransferPoint9346]

@Jkw718 Different voice, but there was an old recording set. I'm in the process of making a second video like this, and you can find it there. Interestingly, the announcements for the 5 shared the same station name recordings with the other lines it ran with. That is until a new recording set took its place.

[craziestbxboy]

melissa has a nice voice, and dianne too jessica sounds like a typical new yorker

[angievalefan1]

excellent recordings. I went to LI after all new gen trains came on. congrats on recordings!!!

[ctrabs74]

Four different people to record stop announcements on a single subway line. Only in New York... LOL

[Ali3exp]

The first days when they had multiple voices doing one announcements. Perfect example at 138th St. Honestly, these do sound better in my opinion. And Jessica sounds a little more mild too. Thanks a lot for posting (even though I am super late)!

[wiishadow4]

that is tragic. how much did i like the voice of the 5 now (i was never on one until 2006.)

[MBTAguy]

The automated announcements on MBTA buses in Boston suffered a much worse fate. The original female voice used to be very friendly and conveyed a lot of information. Here's an example: "Porter Square - transfer to 83, 96, Red Line, and Commuter Rail". Sometime in 2005, the MBTA switched to a dull male voice that is unfriendly and very brief. The same announcement was changed to "Porter Square - bus, subway, and commuter rail connection".

[SecondAvenueLocal]

Nice video. Jessica Ettinger Gottesman is the only voice I never get tired of hearing. Dianne is super annoying in her 2 train announcments

[xavi58]

Agree the lady of the 2 is annoyin, and she also sounds annoyin on the F train, shes givin the announcements like if the passengers retarted

[R160Siemens]

Diaane Tompson is a great annoucer besides Jesisca

[bvestationfan]

awesome robert.

[jlosearch]

i dont like the first girl her voice isnt that noticable jessica and dianne's voice are far more fitting!!!

[DrSurprise]

lol, at first, i thought they used that text to speech program you can find on any computer

[TransferPoint9346]

Nope, those are actual recordings of people making the announcements. If it were a TTS app, it would likely mispronounce some station names like Houston Street.

[DrSurprise]

lol, i know what you mean. this is an example of a TTS app mispronouncing a word but it would be funny if there was a street named crotch street and the MTA used microsoft sam's voice for the announcments. chances, microsoft sam would something like this- "this station is crowsnest street" instead of saying "this station is crotch street"

i know its a bad example but thats the only one i could think of.

[UmedaRaton]

Oh my GOD!! The OLD West Farms Square announcement!! This made my day!!

[QWILDER]

I love you tube.

You are so cool for doing this I was going to do this. you beat me to it!

GOOD JOB!

I like the voices!

[Polychromophilia]

What's the font you used to render the LCD displays?

[TransferPoint9346]

I call it Eighth Avenue Express, after the subway line I first saw it on (R110B cars 3007~3009 originally had this type of character block). The LCD displays in the Amtrak portion of Penn Station also use these, so I just took a picture of the character block and traced from that. The font is not currently available for download.

[takoma620]

The new voices sound meaner because they are annuciating more - Wow, you gotta LOVE the Python intro LOL!

[TGoodman]

I like Ettinger Gottesman's assertiveness.

[TransferPoint9346]

In her new announcements, she sounds angry, like she's PMSing.

[JamaicaQnzFreak]

You are so right...thats why I don't like her announcements on the 5 line. They need to convert it back to Melissa Kleiner b/c she sounded much better and quieter!

[sonicboy678]

The one problem with that would be: Melissa Kliner/Diane Thompson alternation (in Manhattan, it would be Melissa Kleiner/ Jessica Ettinger Gottesman alternation).

[TransferPoint9346]

But still, I prefer the Kleiner/Thompson/Ettinger alternations over a 100% "PMSing Ettinger-Gottesman" system any day!

[sonicboy678]

Okay. But I find it funny when Jessica Ettinger Gottesman says Bergen Street.

[TransferPoint9346]

Now that's one recording I don't have yet.

[peter1700]

i like the new announcements

[takoma620]

That is one GREAT intro you choose lol

[JamaicaQnzFreak]

I'm miss these annoucements :( it sounded so much better. Jessica is loud for no reason!

[Maserati7200]

why did they change it

[klewis511]

I've never heard these before. Much better than Ettinger's.

Everytime I hear hear, I think of my mother on PMS. And, yes, it is that bad.

Thanks for keeping this. Too bad the MTA didn't.

[klewis511]

I've never heard this before, Souds a lot better than Ettinger.

Everytime I hear her voice, I think about my mother on PMS. Yes, it's as bad as it sounds.

Thanks for keeping this.

[DanDMan16]

is that Jessica Ettinger & Mellisa Kliner at the same time

[TransferPoint9346]

Well, in the same announcements, yes.

Turn on the Closed Captions (click on that "up arrow" on the lower right of the player, then click the [CC] button) to see who says what.

[LightningFever86]

They used these announcements in 2004??? I'm glad they changed the tone :)