[urq] Voice synthesizer

[Phil Payne]

".. Bavarian Radio's traffic news announcer ...
As I said (speculatively) earlier - that makes more sense; "traffic news"
rather than just "news".
I don't remember quite how it worked, but there was some sort of agency or
association that all of the traffic news announcers belonged to - perhaps
something akin to a union?  Anyway, you could hire them for voiceovers and
soundbites at a standard charge.  I hired the guy from HR3 (Hessischer
Rundfunk 3) to do a voiceover on a corporate slide dissolve show back in
about 1981.
On most regional radio channels there was traffic news at half past the
hour, unless something serious happened.  A "Geisterfahrer" - someone
driving the wrong way along an Autobahn - would be announced immediately.
The system was called ARI - Autofahrer Rundfunk Information.
One of the standard German jokes about the Ost Friesiens (think Canucks) was
about one hearing a Geisterfahrer warning.  "ONE? There's THOUSANDS of 'em."

-----Original Message-----
From: Keith Lloyd [mailto:spotatashleys at hotmail.com] 
Sent: 22 September 2011 19:14
To: phil at isham-research.co.uk; 'Patrick Carlier'; Urq at audifans.com
Subject: Re: [urq] Voice synthesizer


"I've never heard of her reading the news before - I did hear that she was
working for the Austrian tax authorities some years later."

I knew I'd seen it somewhere:
"Over this period of eleven years, Audi made various attentive refinements
to the quattro. The interior gradually became more comfortable, without
diluting its strictly functional character. The driving area was given
digital displays in the style of the time, and for a while featured an
acoustic function for warnings; Patricia Lipp, Bavarian Radio's traffic news
announcer, supplied the voice."

from: http://www.audiworld.com/news/10/audi-30-yrs-quattro/

Regards

Keith

'87 WR

p.s. I misread Pat's original email I thought he said his car had the voice
in German hence my suggestion of just swapping boxes. I agree his car would
be too early for the voice.