Next Stop Announcments

[Stu]

Has AG even done anything to do with announcments

As I keep saying, their vehicles don't need to be compliant until October next year, so there is no rush for now.

The situation will change if any new vehicles get delivered.

[Ingleboro261F]

Big breakthrough in my opinion as the AG 4 now has partial announcements, says next stop but doesn't say the rest of the announcement. Still I think it's great we finally have something.

7510 rode had fully working announcements with the Walsall announcer voice up until tyseley

[Ingleboro261F]

Big breakthrough in my opinion as the AG 4 now has partial announcements, says next stop but doesn't say the rest of the announcement. Still I think it's great we finally have something.

7510 rode had fully working announcements with the Walsall announcer voice up until tyseley

Some buses have none at all but that's to be expected

[2206]

Of all the platinums I've been on in the last 2 weeks only one that I've seen working audio announcements was 6834 last Sunday, where they worked as far as Wright Road. Then after that there was no audio for the rest of the journey to the City Centre for some reason.
The others only had visual announcements and 6824 had national express West Midlands on the nsa displays.

[SCS]

Of all the platinums I've been on in the last 2 weeks only one that I've seen working audio announcements was 6834 last Sunday, where they worked as far as Wright Road. Then after that there was no audio for the rest of the journey to the City Centre for some reason.
The others only had visual announcements and 6824 had national express West Midlands on the nsa displays.

Yeah, I've personally noticed this too, especially on the E400MMCs. I'm unsure if it's the stop-start that's breaking the NSAs, if there's a driver toggle to disable the audio part of the announcements (I doubt it) or if there's just purely a glitch software-wise. It does vary bus to bus. The most common issues I've seen is the announcements stopping mid-journey and just sticking to the same bus stop, alongside the issue where there's visual announcements but no audio ones. However, I have seen others too.

For example, I was on a 97A service to Birmingham on 7529 on Wednesday 4th. The announcements were broken the whole journey, having the generic "National Express West Midlands" text with the version number of the announcements. Then once it switched over to the 97 back to Chelmsley Wood, they worked as usual. It is a bit bizarre, given that the 97A has had announcements for a while. 

I do understand it is probably extremely difficult to maintain the same announcements across an entire garage worth of buses. As I've mentioned before, I don't want to turn into someone constantly complaining about every single bus missing NSAs, but I do get that some heavily rely on these announcements working as intended. 

[Steve3229vp]

E195 on 907 
The announcement says "nine zero seven", I'm sorry but I hope this gets changed, doesn't sound right at all!

[Tony]

E195 on 907
The announcement says "nine zero seven", I'm sorry but I hope this gets changed, doesn't sound right at all!

Similarly pedants will say it's not an Oh. I agree it doesn't sound right,  but it's a no win. Perhaps the service number needs changing 

[Steve3229vp]

Similarly pedants will say it's not an Oh. I agree it doesn't sound right,  but it's a no win. Perhaps the service number needs changing 

To be honest the amount of times a 33 has beaten the 907 to Perry Barr on my journey home is a lot, maybe it could be renumbered 32

[Ingleboro261F]

72 has NSA as well working on 7540

[Ingleboro261F]

Along now with the 11, AG now has announcements for most of its routes. Works on 7510 really well.

[Gareth]

E195 on 907
The announcement says "nine zero seven", I'm sorry but I hope this gets changed, doesn't sound right at all!

How is it said on the 101?

[jasmine]

How is it said on the 101?

one oh one

[MasterPlan]

Still so many with NSA that are completely silent and some which start off with sound and then cuts off part-route.

[jasmine]

Honestly about 70% of the time i'm on 101 the NSA doesn't work at all.

[Stu]

Looks/sounds like the next stop announcements have been changed again.

Travelled on both E173 on the 8A, and 6943 on the 3 this evening.

The audio voice is now clearly computer generated, which is good as it means it should be easier to update stops when they get changed. But sounds less natural, though I suppose we'll all get used to it!

Added bonus is that there's no longer the 'double announcing' of stops.

On a side note, "8A to Inner Circle" doesn't quite sound correct really, and surely that could have been programmed just to say "8A Inner Circle".