London Transit Gets Vocal with Voice Talent

Riding the bus in London, ON Canada has never been a more interesting let alone exceptionally sonorous experience.

The city’s public transit commission, London Transit, has recently ushered in a new era of sound by hiring professional voice actor Liz Raphael Helgesen, an Atlanta-based freelance voice professional who is no stranger to recording voice overs for mobile technologies, including T-Mobile and AT&T to name a couple.

Recently installed as the voice that tells you the next stop, for instance, “Next stop: Adelaide and Oxford” or “Stop requested”, Helgesen’s work has made an immediate impact.

London Transit commuter, Genevieve Samuels, first encountered Helgesen’s voice overs on a ride to work one morning.

Describing the voice overs as pleasant, Samuels noted, “I was pretty surprised when I got on the bus in the morning to hear each stop announced; I hadn’t heard anything in the news about it, and I’m not sure if the announcements will be on each bus or only on new ones, but stop-announcements are pretty common in larger cities and I think it’s a good idea to implement. My only complaint is that the volume is a little too loud for quiet, morning commutes on a small bus.”

London Transit planning technician, Katie Smith, confirmed the identity of the voice talent (Helgesen) over the phone, and by all accounts, the company is pleased with the response.

Source: Voices.com