{"id":10879,"date":"2007-06-04T19:25:04","date_gmt":"2007-06-05T02:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/06\/04\/new-sounds-and-a-few-sights-at-dia.html"},"modified":"2007-06-04T19:25:04","modified_gmt":"2007-06-05T02:25:04","slug":"new_sounds_and_a_few_sigh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/06\/04\/new_sounds_and_a_few_sigh.html","title":{"rendered":"New sounds (and a few sights) at DIA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sights <\/strong>first — an extension of the west-side parking garage is well underway.   I almost had some choice words for Denver International Airport when the entry signs said the west-side garage was open, but all the entrances were marked full-full-full … until the end, with the loop back into level 1.  Adding the new structure will probably just about make up for the loss of parking spots post-9\/11 when anything next to critical parts of the building was barracaded off.<\/p>\n

But it’s the sounds <\/strong>I’m more … befuddled by.  In particular, the PA voices and music for the trains.  They’ve been completely changed.  The music is different (alternating jazz-piano train music and energetic western guitar), and the voice-over is both different voices and different text.  In particular, the word “concourse” has vanished — I suspect people have been confused about “concourse” vs. “terminal” for some time (esp. since I’ve seen other airports use the words differently).  Now all the train info talks about “gates” — “Stand here for train to A, B, and C gates.” <\/p>\n

The system is clearly still being debugged — the arrival v\/o was truncated at both the A and B concourses, and the “Please stand clear of the doors — this train is proceeding to the B gates” only came after the doors were closed and the train was starting to move.<\/p>\n

If the music was tied to the voice recordings, then if the redid one that’s why they had to redo the other.  A shame though — I won’t miss the mildly irritating female voice that was used, but I will miss the kind of funky tonal music cues for boarding and destinations and all that — especially since it’s likely I’ll never hear them again, which in this digital-recording world is something of a shock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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