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Title: Announcements POLL: Who is better, Phil Sayer or Digital Doris? Post by: Btline on February 09, 2009, 22:59:32 Here is the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Be80OpI8Nrw
Title: Re: Announcements POLL: Who is better, Phil Sayer or Digital Doris? Post by: super tm on February 10, 2009, 17:18:36 What i like is that on busy stations they use both. One does london bound and one country bound. Nice for regualar travellers who can mentally switch off the one which does not apply to them.
Title: Re: Announcements POLL: Who is better, Phil Sayer or Digital Doris? Post by: Btline on February 10, 2009, 18:12:19 What i like is that on busy stations they use both. One does london bound and one country bound. Nice for regualar travellers who can mentally switch off the one which does not apply to them. That's a good idea. Which station does that? (I'm a Phil fan, myself) Title: Re: Announcements POLL: Who is better, Phil Sayer or Digital Doris? Post by: devon_metro on February 10, 2009, 18:43:20 What i like is that on busy stations they use both. One does london bound and one country bound. Nice for regualar travellers who can mentally switch off the one which does not apply to them. That's a good idea. Which station does that? (I'm a Phil fan, myself) Reading, Exeter St Davids Title: Re: Announcements POLL: Who is better, Phil Sayer or Digital Doris? Post by: Btline on February 10, 2009, 18:53:12 Does DD do London bound? (oh...the way she says "London Waterloo" :D
Title: Re: Announcements POLL: Who is better, Phil Sayer or Digital Doris? Post by: 6 OF 2 redundant adjunct of unimatrix 01 on February 10, 2009, 19:19:42 yeh up-t-north the two sheffield routes are anounced with both, occationally they anounce one after the other for the same destination via different routes its like there in competition
Title: Re: Announcements POLL: Who is better, Phil Sayer or Digital Doris? Post by: TerminalJunkie on February 10, 2009, 20:21:08 Can we have a Don't Know/Don't Care option, please?
Title: Re: Announcements POLL: Who is better, Phil Sayer or Digital Doris? Post by: Sprog on February 10, 2009, 20:23:50 What i like is that on busy stations they use both. One does london bound and one country bound. Nice for regualar travellers who can mentally switch off the one which does not apply to them. That's a good idea. Which station does that? (I'm a Phil fan, myself) Reading, Exeter St Davids Bristol Parkway aswell Title: Re: Announcements POLL: Who is better, Phil Sayer or Digital Doris? Post by: Btline on February 10, 2009, 20:31:38 Can we have a Don't Know/Don't Care option, please? There is that option. Don't vote. :P Title: Re: Announcements POLL: Who is better, Phil Sayer or Digital Doris? Post by: Super Guard on February 10, 2009, 21:31:42 At Exeter St Davids, Doris does Platforms 1,2,5,6 and Phil does 3/4. Up London is Doris, Down London is Phil - the same applies at Tiverton Parkway.
My pref is Doris, as I prefer the way she says London Paddington & Waterloo. Title: Re: Announcements POLL: Who is better, Phil Sayer or Digital Doris? Post by: 6 OF 2 redundant adjunct of unimatrix 01 on February 10, 2009, 21:38:38 oh perverts
Title: Re: Announcements POLL: Who is better, Phil Sayer or Digital Doris? Post by: inspector_blakey on February 10, 2009, 22:56:27 And the way she says "HWestburee" is dead sexy as well. Phil Sayer just shouts...
I'll get my coat. Title: Re: Announcements POLL: Who is better, Phil Sayer or Digital Doris? Post by: G.Uard on February 11, 2009, 08:33:12 I'm not convinced that our local Doris is the same as the one on the You Tube clip. Are there any more Doris clones out there?
Title: Re: Announcements POLL: Who is better, Phil Sayer or Digital Doris? Post by: inspector_blakey on February 11, 2009, 09:29:48 There are definitely at least three Dorises in the FGW area. Ex-Thames stations e.g. Oxford have a very posh lady doing the recorded announcements (although it has to be said that neither she, nor the departure screens are working about 50% of the time).
Ex Wessex trains and stations (along with the English announcements in Wales) are made by Doris no. 2, who sounds a bit younger and speaks very clearly but always sounds to me as if she has a vaguely sarcastic edge to her voice! Doris no 3 is the one at some stations that were run by the "old" FGW before 2006, e.g. Bath, Bristol, Reading (although in some places she does a double act with digital Dave!) Title: Re: Announcements POLL: Who is better, Phil Sayer or Digital Doris? Post by: devonian on February 11, 2009, 17:11:46 Phil sounds far more realistic than Dorris. Also, someone needs to remind DOrris that there are only 2 'e's in Leeds and it is not Leeeeeeeeeeeds.
Title: Re: Announcements POLL: Who is better, Phil Sayer or Digital Doris? Post by: Super Guard on February 11, 2009, 17:42:06 There are definitely at least three Dorises in the FGW area. Ex-Thames stations e.g. Oxford have a very posh lady doing the recorded announcements (although it has to be said that neither she, nor the departure screens are working about 50% of the time). Ex Wessex trains and stations (along with the English announcements in Wales) are made by Doris no. 2, who sounds a bit younger and speaks very clearly but always sounds to me as if she has a vaguely sarcastic edge to her voice! Doris no 3 is the one at some stations that were run by the "old" FGW before 2006, e.g. Bath, Bristol, Reading (although in some places she does a double act with digital Dave!) Yeah Doris no 2 I DO NOT like at all... sounds so so false. I know what you mean devonian about Doris#1 saying Leeeeeeeeeeeds. OK this is getting a bit weird now ;D Title: Re: Announcements POLL: Who is better, Phil Sayer or Digital Doris? Post by: bemmy on February 11, 2009, 21:16:47 Wessex Doris says "BedMINsta" instead of BEDminster, or indeed Bemmy ;D.
Title: Re: Announcements POLL: Who is better, Phil Sayer or Digital Doris? Post by: Chris from Nailsea on February 11, 2009, 21:28:51 Probably about a month ago now, our excellent 'live' platform announcer at Bristol Temple Meads was heard to say, quite clearly, "The next service from platform 4 will be the 1754 to Taunton, calling at Bemmy, Parson Street, Nailsea & Backwell, Yatton, ..."
He made it all sound so natural, I'm sure many of the non-locals probably wouldn't even have noticed - but we regular commuters did - and exchanged grins! ;D Title: Re: Announcements POLL: Who is better, Phil Sayer or Digital Doris? Post by: welshman on February 11, 2009, 22:01:08 Dunno 'oo does 'em in Wales but 's not either of them.
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