You have made my day with this excellent guide. Just what I've been looking for. I run sound through my tablet to a blue tooth rechargeable mini cube speaker. Works well for music and sound from videos so see it as another asset for my model railway. Thanks for sharing.👍
Very good tutorial video. My only suggestion has already been mentioned: "calling at", as opposed to "stopping at'. Today's totally irrelevant trivia point: I used to travel on the line you use in your example, and reckon your train is about to leave Woking. Any train that stopped at West Byfleet would also stop at Byfleet, Weybridge and Walton on Thames. Told you it was an irrelevant point!
I made a test version of a station announcer using a text to speech. One thing I found is some words came out wrong so I had to spell them another way to get the correct word. The system used recordable chips for greetings cards There were 4 parts per announcement the first Platform one for the, next a chip containing the time of departure, the next chip had the destination and the final one calling at. There were rotary selection switches so any combination could be selected platform 1-6 a switch with 12 hour positions and one with 12 minute positions then 12 calling at options. It took a lot of chips but the idea did work. All 4 chips began to play at the same time when the announce button was pressed so each recording needed blank space so the bits of announcement played in the right place. I hope to get it fully working on my smaller layout which has only a few options. The test version only had 3 options using a bank of 15 cards.
Sounds like a speech synth board I built 30 years ago that required phonetic spelling of every word and even then it was robotic. Using sampled speech like your announcer is a much better approach though a single chip controller with memory could it all today and more. Still, those days of building circuits like that were fun in themselves. Thanks for sharing.
@@EuviRail For sure today you could build something all electronic but I am a relays and switches guy with little knowledge of how to design an electronic one. I will look at the links for speech you put on and may be inspired to get that old box out and see what I can do. It is fun building circuits you designed and getting them to work.
I have access to ATOS Anne station announcements (most commonly used one across pretty much the entire network) would probably be the most realistic one to use.
I have a product that Life-Like made. It is a receiver in the shape of a train station. the station has a speaker in it. It is accompanied by a remote control.
