In many railways around the world the driver (or perhaps another on train, or even a remote person) announce the platform the train is next to arrive at and once it stops where the train is going. Many of them also talk about the connections you can make and how to get there e.g. New York Subway. For my stream today I was playing WoS4 New York 7 line, to improve the realism I used recorded announcements from a real train and played the sound bites in sequence as we approached and stopped at each station. This added loads to the realism of the service. While I can easily do that under "fair use" I do I know using real announcements commercially is challenging, but paying some voice talent to read the announcements based on scripts from real announcements shouldn't be all that difficult. It would be awesome to hear something like this in TSW2 in the future. Paul
This applies to the German routes like Rhein-Ruhr Osten Main Spessart Bahn and Schnellfahrstrecke Köln-Aachen. These are all done by Ingo Ruff SKA Main Spessart Bahn Aschaffenburg-Gemünden and RRO videos are by KevinP RRO Schnellfahrstrecke Köln-Aachen Main Spessart Bahn local Aschaffenburg-Gemünden Main Spessart Bahn version 2 Limited stops to Heigenbrücken from Aschaffenburg. Then local to Gemünden from Heigenbrücken
That is the idea driverwoods#1787 I would happily record something for an Australian route - oh wait, there aren't any.... Using local people would be best, I imagine there are plenty of players who would have a go at doing the recordings if they were asked to and DTG didn't want to use "real" voice talent. Of course it needs to be lofi and played as though its coming through the speakers in a train which are nearly always awful! Paul
I travel with GWR a lot. I always mouth out the announcement in time with the speakers if im familiar with it. Id love to voice the Penzance & London route. Mind you a lot of stations have male voices where others have female. Keeping that in mind and applying that would be cool, but would dovetail ever do that, or stick to one voice?
If you feel like you could help DTG with this, go to their job's site (https://dovetailgames.com/vacancies/speculative-application) and just apply there. DTG will not just do a "Oh this guy volunteers, we take him" - no, they hire. So maybe just apply there, write your intention and see what happens. Maybe this will work, because getting the "real" voices is probably impossible due to licensing.
