{"id":292,"date":"2010-11-15T12:11:30","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T17:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/?p=292"},"modified":"2011-04-19T09:48:50","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T13:48:50","slug":"the-voice-of-transportation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/archives\/292","title":{"rendered":"The voice of transportation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since the New York City Subway started broadcasting automated voice announcements a few months ago, people have noticed a striking but hard-to-place familiarity in the voice behind the announcements.\u00a0 If you couldn&#8217;t put your finger on it, <a title=\"Interview with Carolyn Hopkins, voiceover artist\" href=\"http:\/\/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/11\/14\/announcing-the-subway-announcement-lady\/\" target=\"_blank\">the New York Times has interviewed Carolyn Hopkins, the voice artist behind not only the subway announcements, but also those at all three NYC airports (LaGuardia, JFK, and Newark)<\/a>.\u00a0 Not to mention subway systems in Chicago, Washington, and Paris, and many other subways and major airports in the US and worldwide!<\/p>\n<p>Despite the ubiquity of her voice here, Ms. Hopkins does not live in New York City, and though she visits occasionally has not used the subway here since 1957.\u00a0 She works from her home studio in Maine, recording the announcements in &#8220;a windowless room in her house with  sound-absorbing material on the wall \u2014 a tapestry, hung like a painting  but covering foam.&#8221;\u00a0 Even improvised absorptive treatments like these can go a long way toward improving audio quality in basic studios and recording booths\u2014and the benefits are are no less in any room with so much as a speakerphone.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, some might not be surprised that Ms. Hopkins provides the voice of the subway from the Maine countryside.\u00a0 No one that had to use the subway regularly could be so calm and composed when delivering your wait for the next train!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since the New York City Subway started broadcasting automated voice announcements a few months ago, people have noticed a striking but hard-to-place familiarity in the voice behind the announcements.\u00a0 If you couldn&#8217;t put your finger on it, the New York Times has interviewed Carolyn Hopkins, the voice artist behind not only the subway announcements, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[34,27,39,31],"class_list":["post-292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-absorption","tag-finishes","tag-nyc-subway","tag-paris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":404,"href":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions\/404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}