ScotRail audio announcements as an interactive database
August 21, 2022 5:31 PM Subscribe
ScotRail audio announcements as an interactive database
Scottish train operator ScotRail released a two-hour long MP3 file containing all of the components of its automated station announcements, as the result of a Freedom of Information request. I have been having SO much building things with this.
I wrote up a detailed blog post describing my experiments so far - two that are particularly fun are this page which generates a random apology sentence on demand, and this tool which lets you assemble your own sentence from a sequence of searches for clips.
Matt Eason split the original 2 hour MP3 up into 2,400 separate files and ran an operation to crowdsource the transcriptions (it took less than 2 hours to get them all done). He wrote about how he did that.
Matt also built Ambient ScotRail Beats with the recordings, which is utterly delightful.
Scottish train operator ScotRail released a two-hour long MP3 file containing all of the components of its automated station announcements, as the result of a Freedom of Information request. I have been having SO much building things with this.
I wrote up a detailed blog post describing my experiments so far - two that are particularly fun are this page which generates a random apology sentence on demand, and this tool which lets you assemble your own sentence from a sequence of searches for clips.
Matt Eason split the original 2 hour MP3 up into 2,400 separate files and ran an operation to crowdsource the transcriptions (it took less than 2 hours to get them all done). He wrote about how he did that.
Matt also built Ambient ScotRail Beats with the recordings, which is utterly delightful.
Role: developer
I'm also curious about the very non-Scotrail snippets. I just tried your random apology generator and it included 'the London overground' which AFAIK isn't run by Scotrail!
posted by penguin pie at 3:27 PM on August 24, 2022
posted by penguin pie at 3:27 PM on August 24, 2022
Expect some traffic! Tom Scott just included the Ambient ScotRail Beats website in his most recent newsletter today.
posted by terrapin at 10:42 AM on August 29, 2022
posted by terrapin at 10:42 AM on August 29, 2022
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This one certainly begged the question: "Why did they have a standardised recording about a wartime bomb that has now been made safe?"
I'll enjoy looking through your links - thanks!
posted by penguin pie at 3:24 PM on August 24, 2022