{"id":2559,"date":"2007-12-09T13:54:38","date_gmt":"2007-12-09T17:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=2559"},"modified":"2007-12-09T14:08:23","modified_gmt":"2007-12-09T18:08:23","slug":"voices-of-the-ttc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/12\/09\/voices-of-the-ttc\/","title":{"rendered":"Voice(s) of the TTC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2040\/2096949312_da680be2df.jpg\" height=\"333\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/?p=2530\">Last week<\/a> we linked to an article describing the firing of the woman who does the voice of the London Underground. On Thursday, the National Post had an article on the two (not fired) women who do the voices for the TTC. Read the rest, and see a photo, <a href=\"http:\/\/network.nationalpost.com\/np\/blogs\/toronto\/archive\/2007\/12\/06\/ttc-pair-tell-riders-where-to-get-off.aspx\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>[Cheryl] Bome, a hard-working single mother from the west end, is one of the unlikely voices of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toronto.ca\/ttc\/\" target=\"_blank\">TTC<\/a>&#8216;s new $6.6-million automated stop announcement system. She can be heard on buses and streetcars across the city, letting riders know when to get off in a perfectly calm and measured tone &#8212; at least, by the time she was finished recording.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Fortunately, we have the opportunity to record them perhaps two or three times if I get tongue-tied,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Ms. Bome said.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Exactly 11,202 bus stops and 1,347 streetcar stops have been geo-coded on the TTC&#8217;s GPS system so far; the remaining are to be completed by February. Many of the stops have the same names &#8212; there&#8217;s a Finch East stop on all the north and south routes that cross the road, for instance &#8212; so Ms. Bome had only about 5,500 voice files to record. She has already done 4,669, which are in use on buses throughout the city.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The task was big, but, in keeping with the transit system&#8217;s perpetual money crisis, the recording process wasn&#8217;t a costly operation. Both Ms. Bome, a TTC administrative assistant, and Sue Bigioni, a TTC communications assistant who taped the stop announcements for the 70-station subway system, are regular TTC staffers plucked from the crowd after a little market testing.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There were<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/?p=2494\"> lots of comments<\/a> when we first posted about the new TTC voices. Most were positive, with a few hardcore dissenters.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dubes\/\">Dubes<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week we linked to an article describing the firing of the woman who does the voice of the London Underground. On Thursday, the National Post had an article on the two (not fired) women who do the voices for the TTC. 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