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Perhaps SHE is the voice of the F train?! |
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Posted by RyogaRidesTheMTA on Mon Feb 27 22:38:57 2012 Bloomberg Market Minute ReportThis recording from Bloomberg Radio features Kathleen Campion. Her voice sounds very similar to the faster/more pleasing voice on the F train. She sounds very similar to Dianne Thompson (who we all know/fall asleep to on the 7th/Lenox line). Many people online/on the forums have already credited the F train announcements to Dianne Thompson by default from her years on the 2, but perhaps it's really Kathleen Campion who is announcing these more pleasant announcements. We probably will never know since an official report will probably never be made (unlike when the NTTs were new in 2000 when the voices were featured in a news article), but it's pretty interesting to hear the similarity between the two voices. I have heard Dianne Thompson on Bloomberg radio in the past and I don't doubt that she is capable of recording "faster, clearer announcements" either. I just think Kathleen Campion's delivery on radio sounds very similar to the delivery on the F train announcements. (Especially on the Jamaica-bound trains in Queens). |
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Posted by G1Ravage on Mon Feb 27 23:55:29 2012, in response to Perhaps SHE is the voice of the F train?!, posted by RyogaRidesTheMTA on Mon Feb 27 22:38:57 2012. O.O*mind blown* |
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Re: Perhaps SHE is the voice of the F train?! |
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Posted by Avid Reader on Tue Feb 28 11:39:28 2012, in response to Perhaps SHE is the voice of the F train?!, posted by RyogaRidesTheMTA on Mon Feb 27 22:38:57 2012. The final word would have to come from 'heypaul""heypaul" is renowned for his intimate with the sultry "F" train of yore. |
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Re: Perhaps SHE is the voice of the F train?! |
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Posted by Kriston Lewis on Tue Feb 28 12:35:21 2012, in response to Perhaps SHE is the voice of the F train?!, posted by RyogaRidesTheMTA on Mon Feb 27 22:38:57 2012. Campion's voice seems a bit too high to be the one on the announcements. I'm not entirely convinced. The only place I hear a similarity is in the intro.I say this because I read something where Thompson requested specifically to do the A and C and the A, C and F share the same voice. |
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Posted by G1Ravage on Tue Feb 28 13:48:37 2012, in response to Re: Perhaps SHE is the voice of the F train?!, posted by Kriston Lewis on Tue Feb 28 12:35:21 2012. I vaguely recall reading that also. Can't remember where, and I can't seem to find any information on where she is now. |
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Re: Perhaps SHE is the voice of the F train?! |
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Posted by Lance52 on Tue Feb 28 17:08:27 2012, in response to Re: Perhaps SHE is the voice of the F train?!, posted by G1Ravage on Tue Feb 28 13:48:37 2012. Obviously, she no longer works for Bloomberg Radio. According to her LinkedIn profile, she, under the name Dianne Stanciel, currently hosts a blog catered towards the Baby Boomers generation. At least that's what my research led to.http://www.linkedin.com/in/diannethompsonstanciel23011999 http://www.highheelshotflashes.com/ |
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Re: Perhaps SHE is the voice of the F train?! |
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Posted by Andrew Saucci on Wed Feb 29 00:52:55 2012, in response to Perhaps SHE is the voice of the F train?!, posted by RyogaRidesTheMTA on Mon Feb 27 22:38:57 2012. I always suspected that Campion did some of the recordings. I remember her from her WNET days. |
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Re: Perhaps SHE is the voice of the F train?! |
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Posted by RyogaRidesTheMTA on Tue Apr 17 19:29:47 2012, in response to Perhaps SHE is the voice of the F train?!, posted by RyogaRidesTheMTA on Mon Feb 27 22:38:57 2012. I think I changed my opinion. I rode an F via the E line, and the "50th Street" announcement reeked of Dianne Thompson (since it sounded like a clearer version of the 2 local recording).I don't think that Campion didn't record the F train, at least not specifically--but I do think that Campion offers her voice on some of the newer announcements. Such as "Jay Street-Metrotech", "Transfer is available to the M15 Select Bus Service", etc. Since Thompson no longer works for Bloomberg, I suppose Campion must be the new "similar" voice. Here's another recording featuring Campion. Interview with Patrice Regnier by Kathleen Campion I can very well hear "Jay Street-Metrotech", etc. in her tone and tempo. |
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Re: Perhaps SHE is the voice of the F train?! |
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Posted by 21queensbridge on Tue Jun 5 17:58:05 2012, in response to Re: Perhaps SHE is the voice of the F train?!, posted by RyogaRidesTheMTA on Tue Apr 17 19:29:47 2012. sorry to bump this thread but it is Kathleen campion who voices the f line. i did a little research and asked Kathleen myself, and she basically confirmed it. |
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Re: Perhaps SHE is the voice of the F train?! |
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Posted by G1Ravage on Tue Jul 31 00:08:24 2012, in response to Re: Perhaps SHE is the voice of the F train?!, posted by 21queensbridge on Tue Jun 5 17:58:05 2012. Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh? |
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Posted by LRG5784 on Tue Jul 31 00:13:18 2012, in response to Re: Perhaps SHE is the voice of the F train?!, posted by G1Ravage on Tue Jul 31 00:08:24 2012. I second this. |
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Posted by Mr Railfan on Tue Jul 31 00:40:50 2012, in response to Re: Perhaps SHE is the voice of the F train?!, posted by RyogaRidesTheMTA on Tue Apr 17 19:29:47 2012. I made a Comparison video with the voices for the (2) (A) (C) (F) (G) (S) and reroute announcement. Make your own conclusion but i still think it's Dianne.link encase Embed code doesn't work: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SE7B9tIdnI |
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Posted by G1Ravage on Tue Jul 31 00:45:55 2012, in response to Re: Perhaps SHE is the voice of the F train?!, posted by Mr Railfan on Tue Jul 31 00:40:50 2012. I want to believe it's Dianne also. But after listening to the audio clips of Kathleen Campion from the radio, she sounds uncannily like the R-160 (A)(F), etc... |
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Posted by 600vdc on Tue Jul 31 01:46:20 2012, in response to Re: Perhaps SHE is the voice of the F train?!, posted by Mr Railfan on Tue Jul 31 00:40:50 2012. The vast majority of the announcements on that clip are Kathleen Campion, but there are also some Dianne Thompson, and I believe Catherine Cowdery clips, as well. Plus, of course, Charlie "Please Stand Clear of the Closing Doors" Pellet.I was the recording engineer for a lot of the subway announcements when I was senior radio engineer at Bloomberg. We used Dianne, Catherine, Kathleen, Charlie and Jessica Ettinger on most of the recordings, and as requested by the MTA, we tried to isolate them by line, so that no one's voice was heard on more than one line per division. The idea was that by keeping voices isolated on a single line per division, there would be less confusion. If that policy continued following my departcher I don't know. We started with the new R142 (ff) IRT cars, since they were delivered first; and later did the R143(ff) BMT/IND cars after they were delivered. For the techies out there: the recordings were made in a small voice studio using AKG 414C condenser microphones and Air Corps Voice Processors feeding a Wheatstone A-500 console. The original recordings were made digitally direct to hard drive and edited in the digital domain using Syntrillium's "Cool Edit Pro" (now Adobe Audition). This was still fairly new technology in the late 90s. The resulting WAV files were then copied to Compact Discs, and were delivered to the MTA as WAV files on CD to keep the audio quality as high as possible. How the MTA transferred the files to the subway cars PA system I do not know. I'm not sure if they kept them as WAV files or used some other formats. I'm going to guess and say they kept the WAV files intact because they were being very particular about the quality of the recordings. I was told by MTA people that this was because of the complaints about the unintelligibility of a lot of subway station PA announcements. They didn't want the same complaints about the in-car announcements. In any event, to bring this back on topic, to try and clear things up, I contacted Dianne tonight by email and she should be able to clear a lot of this up. I'll let you know what I find out. Rene' Tetro Director of Engineering & IT WNTP-WFIL Philadelphia (formerly Senior Radio Engineer for Bloomberg Radio/WBBR) |
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Posted by R 36 ML 9542 on Tue Jul 31 01:53:51 2012, in response to Re: Perhaps SHE is the voice of the F train?!, posted by 600vdc on Tue Jul 31 01:46:20 2012. I like the one on the R-142As!!!! Whats her name? |
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Posted by G1Ravage on Tue Jul 31 04:15:46 2012, in response to Re: Perhaps SHE is the voice of the F train?!, posted by R 36 ML 9542 on Tue Jul 31 01:53:51 2012. Jessica Ettinger recorded the (4)(5) and (6). (Although Melissa Kleiner originally recorded the (5), and then was removed.)Dianne Thompson recorded the (1)(2) and (3). It's my assumption that Catherine Cowdery recorded the (7) and 42nd Street Shuttle. Sounds like her, despite the old sound files. |
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Posted by chud1 on Tue Jul 31 04:16:17 2012, in response to Re: Perhaps SHE is the voice of the F train?!, posted by Mr Railfan on Tue Jul 31 00:40:50 2012. sounds like da same voice. |
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Posted by WMATAGMOAGH on Tue Jul 31 04:32:03 2012, in response to Re: Perhaps SHE is the voice of the F train?!, posted by 600vdc on Tue Jul 31 01:46:20 2012. Thanks for the background on this.Personally, I think they should have chosen ONE person to do the announcements (Jessica Ettinger Gottesman is my favorite of the female voices). The mashups that have resulted in some places, especially now that Jessica is no longer in the market, sound horrendous. |
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Posted by G1Ravage on Tue Jul 31 05:08:20 2012, in response to Re: Perhaps SHE is the voice of the F train?!, posted by 600vdc on Tue Jul 31 01:46:20 2012. Mr. 600vdc, you've just provided more information than we probably had ever hoped to receive. Thank you so much.I'm a Train Operator for the New York City Subway, with a side interest in radio and voice acting, so I always enjoy playing "guess the voice". Here's where we stand right now.... For years, we've known this much: Melissa Kleiner: (5) (removed in a later update) Jessica Ettinger: (4)(5)(6) (moved out west, no longer records) Dianne Thompson: (1)(2)(3)(9) (status unknown; possibly still recording?) Catherine Cowdery: (B)(D)(E)(G)(J)(L)(M)(N)(Q)(R)(V)(W)(Z) (had been recording newer transfer updates for a while, but has since disappeared; status unknown) Charlie Pellett: Many miscellaneous announcements. Always available. I also suspect that Cowdery recorded the (7) and 42nd Street (S) Shuttle, but I can't be 100% sure. I once heard another name get thrown out there, but I forgot who it was. Originally on the R-142 cars, Pellett provided all of the transfer announcements, using what I presume to be a master file of him saying every letter and number, and then Transit (or a third party) editing together what they needed at the time (as our service is constantly evolving). In a later update around 2002/2003 or so, Ettinger and Thompson came in and recorded a bunch of transfer announcements for their respective lines. These new transfers were used mainly to reflect new rush hour service patterns, while many of the Pellett transfers remained. However, with Ettinger (and possibly Thompson) out of the picture, Transit has gone back to splicing together Pellett transfers these days when needed. With the R-160 cars, however, Cowdery recorded her own transfers for each station, and interestingly enough, even apparently recorded the *same station name* multiple times for different lines, rather than Transit reusing just one file. When updates were needed, Cowdery rerecorded transfers for a while, but hasn't lately. The big question we've been pondering for a long while now is who is voicing the (A)(C)(F), Franklin Avenue (S) Shuttle, and Rockaway Park (S) Shuttle trains on the R-160 cars. For the longest time we had assumed it was Thompson. It sounded a *bit* like her, and we had once read an interview where she admitted she voiced the (1)(2)(3) and (9), and said she someday hoped to voice the (A), which I think was her home line at the time. But then a few months ago, someone discovered a sound byte of Kathleen Campion reading some news, and holy moly, she sounded like that voice from the R-160! This mystery voice, much like Cowdery, recorded transfers for her respective lines, but Transit in recent years has stopped caring about any sort of voice consistency on the announcements, and has begun mixing together Cowdery and mystery-voice into the same sentence at times. "Mystery-voice" has solely been recording the latest transfers and new station names for at least the past year or so, although Pellett has also recently recorded newer transfer announcements, where splicing wasn't enough. I tried to find information on Kathleen Campion. All I could really find was a Bloomberg Businessweek page, mentioning that Campion was Executive Vice President of Bloomberg L.P. Sounds like a really high-up position to still be recording subway announcements, unless she personally enjoys doing them. Anyway, I turned this into an essay, didn't I? If there's anything else you can tell us about your time involved with our subways, that would be wonderful. There are many railfans out there who create high-quality recordings of announcements for scrap-booking, or for use in train simulation games, and they post them on YouTube. I'm sure they could link to a few if you wanted to hear how our latest R-160 announcements were coming along (and whether we're hearing Thompson or Campion). In fact, starting around 3:16 into this video are some very old cell-phone recordings of the (7) line announcements, which have not yet been used in passenger service (new trains haven't yet arrived on the (7) line). Any idea who this is? |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Tue Jul 31 11:25:55 2012, in response to Perhaps SHE is the voice of the F train?!, posted by RyogaRidesTheMTA on Mon Feb 27 22:38:57 2012. "She"? As in "'She' is the cat's mother" . . . ?? |
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Posted by R 36 ML 9542 on Tue Jul 31 16:44:17 2012, in response to Re: Perhaps SHE is the voice of the F train?!, posted by R 36 ML 9542 on Tue Jul 31 01:53:51 2012. Any one have a recording of Jessica? I think the one that does the R-142s from the 5? and the R-142As? I forget. |
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Posted by LRG5784 on Tue Jul 31 18:23:12 2012, in response to Re: Perhaps SHE is the voice of the F train?!, posted by R 36 ML 9542 on Tue Jul 31 16:44:17 2012. Search on YouTube. You're bound to find something there. |
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Posted by Mr Railfan on Tue Jul 31 20:57:38 2012, in response to Re: Perhaps SHE is the voice of the F train?!, posted by R 36 ML 9542 on Tue Jul 31 16:44:17 2012. here's some announcements i recorded of Jessica from the (5) (6):This one has Catherine saying the announcements in the bronx: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gibgYcH1kw0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnIiCHqUx6E http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAswDa1-ViQ |
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Posted by 21queensbridge on Tue Jul 31 21:53:45 2012, in response to Perhaps SHE is the voice of the F train?!, posted by RyogaRidesTheMTA on Mon Feb 27 22:38:57 2012. You can message Kathleen Campion at her Bloomberg e-mail K.Campion@bloomberg.net and she will respond.. |
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Posted by 600vdc on Tue Jul 31 23:58:44 2012, in response to Re: Perhaps SHE is the voice of the F train?!, posted by 21queensbridge on Tue Jul 31 21:53:45 2012. I heard back from Dianne Thompson today and here is what she says about the recordings:"I did the 7th Ave line and the last time I was there last year, my voice was still there. It was the number 1, 2 and 3... Jessica did the Lexington Ave line and it is Catherine on the F. I really appreciate the compliments." I hope Dianne's comments were able to clear up some of the questions you had about who voiced what. Rene' Rene' Tetro Director of Engineering & IT WFIL-WNTP Philadelphia (former Senior Radio Engineer at Bloomberg/WBBR) |
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Posted by G1Ravage on Wed Aug 1 00:18:45 2012, in response to Re: Perhaps SHE is the voice of the F train?!, posted by 600vdc on Tue Jul 31 23:58:44 2012. Perhaps she meant Kathleen did the (F).So that's it then...Dianne only did the Seventh Avenue Line, and nothing more. Everything since has been Kathleen Campion. |
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Posted by R 36 ML 9542 on Wed Aug 1 01:54:04 2012, in response to Re: Perhaps SHE is the voice of the F train?!, posted by Mr Railfan on Tue Jul 31 20:57:38 2012. Thank you very kindly!! Mr Railfan!!!! |
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Posted by 21queensbridge on Thu Aug 2 12:32:32 2012, in response to Re: Perhaps SHE is the voice of the F train?!, posted by G1Ravage on Tue Jul 31 05:08:20 2012. The voice of the 7 and 42 Street Shuttle is Annie Bergen |
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Posted by G1Ravage on Thu Aug 2 16:33:00 2012, in response to Re: Perhaps SHE is the voice of the F train?!, posted by 21queensbridge on Thu Aug 2 12:32:32 2012. Who is she? I've never heard her talked about. |
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Posted by 21queensbridge on Fri Aug 3 00:23:39 2012, in response to Re: Perhaps SHE is the voice of the F train?!, posted by G1Ravage on Thu Aug 2 16:33:00 2012. I found an old subchat post that someone named Annie Bergen or spelled Any Bergan, recorded the 7 line, this is the link.....www.subchat.com/read.asp?Id=903207 |
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Posted by G1Ravage on Fri Aug 3 00:26:36 2012, in response to Re: Perhaps SHE is the voice of the F train?!, posted by 21queensbridge on Fri Aug 3 00:23:39 2012. ROFLMAOOh wow...I posted that. >.> *jumps out the window* |
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