• @9point6
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    31 year ago

    It will probably be that there is a load more announcements possible on newer trains, so rather than only doing the missing bits with a new voice actor, they may as well do the lot so that it’s consistent

    • Cevilia (she/they/…)
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      11 year ago

      Bold of you to assume Northern paid a voice actor and didn’t just sit a random driver down in front of a microphone. /joke

      • @jocanib
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        31 year ago

        Close. Two random employees, neither of them drivers:

        The new onboard announcements are being recorded by Peter Corley and Laura Palmer, two of Northern’s employees, who were chosen for having “nice voices”. Corley is a conductor based in York with a ripe Yorkshire accent. Palmer is also based in York as Northern’s cybersecurity and compliance manager, but, more controversially, is actually from Essex. “That makes her a northerner by choice, which is always nice,” said a Northern Trains PR person

        • rubikcuber
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          11 year ago

          I really hope Laura Palmer was born pre-1990, because naming your child after a fictional teenager who may or may not have been murdered by her father is pretty grim.