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I made this! Thanks for posting it, I'll gladly answer any questions.

The samples are available here on GitHub: https://github.com/matteason/scotrail-announcements-june-202...

...and here on Google Drive: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/172W6sXnvlr7UcNLi...

We crowdsourced transcriptions for all the clips and Simon Willison built an interactive dashboard to explore them: https://scotrail.datasette.io/scotrail/

The announcements are read by voice-over artist Alison McKay: https://www.alisonmckay.com/

Nice, but neither produces any output in Materialistic (Hackernews reader on Android) nor the Duckduckgo browser. Does play in Google Chrome. All on Android 11.

Works fine in Glider (HN app) in WebView on Android 12

do you sync up the announcements with the music? it kind of sounds like it's synced somewhat

No, it's completely random! After each announcement ends there's a random delay of between 0 and n seconds, where n is 15 by default but adjustable with the 'frequency' slider. I think you just end up with bits that sound synchronised because they happen to fall on the beat

This is excellent Matt. Have been following the activity on Twitter this week and it's been a lot of fun.

Thank you!

This will be the new soundtrack to my life. Many thanks, Matt

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