Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie

Voice prompts in lifts

Options
  • 11-12-2011 3:39pm
    #1
    eth0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,635 ✭✭✭


    I miss the time when you could get into a lift and it would just make a simple 'ping' sound when you got to the right floor.

    Some time ago (health & safety gone mad) they decided that every lift needs to say a few words for every thing it does

    "Dohhs Ohhhpening"

    "Lift going up"

    "Dohhs Clouwsing"

    "Fifth floor."

    "Dohhs Ohhhpening"

    This is worse than "Luggage doors operating" because it always has to be in the most annoying British accent imaginable. It must be some British employee of Otis or the likes that done the voice for every lift in every English speaking country in the world.

    Lifts are also far less responsive than they used to be. Before you'd press the button and the doors would close instantly but many now pause to get the "Doors closing" anouncement in. Why?


Comments

  • Options
    #2
    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    What's your favourite humming noise?


  • Options
    #3
    Sitec
    Registered Users Posts: 2,964 ✭✭✭Sitec


    Because some people are blind.


  • Options
    #4
    eth0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,635 ✭✭✭eth0


    chin_grin wrote: »
    What's your favourite humming noise?

    50Hz


  • Options
    #5
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    Blind people


  • Options
    #6
    eth0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,635 ✭✭✭eth0


    efb wrote: »
    Blind people

    They wouldn't hear the doors close or notice the direction it's going?


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #7
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    It makes it easier for them. Live with it.


  • Options
    #8
    anndub
    Registered Users Posts: 505 ✭✭✭anndub


    chin_grin wrote: »
    What's your favourite humming noise?

    Would it be mmm-mmmmm or would it be mmmm-mm?


  • Options
    #9
    Sitec
    Registered Users Posts: 2,964 ✭✭✭Sitec


    eth0 wrote: »
    They wouldn't hear the doors close or notice the direction it's going?

    It just makes life easier for them and it hardly burdens your life? If that all that annoys you in life you're doing fairly well.


  • Options
    #10
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users Posts: 12,486 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iNtOWLS7aY

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • Options
    #11
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users Posts: 24,012 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    I wonder if the voice gets all apologetic if the lift gets jammed, and looks for sympathy by prattling on about coming from a broken home, or being passed by for promotion to a taller building with more floors.


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #12
    Logical Fallacy
    Registered Users Posts: 5,933 ✭✭✭Logical Fallacy


    eth0 wrote: »
    They wouldn't hear the doors close or notice the direction it's going?

    It just makes their life a little easier to know what floor they elevator is at.

    This thread is nothing more than whingey ****ers gone mad tbh.


  • Options
    #13
    Mr.Crinklewood
    Registered Users Posts: 12,431 ✭✭✭✭Mr.Crinklewood


    Whenever I get The Luas, I find the voice woman very sexy.


  • Options
    #14
    eth0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,635 ✭✭✭eth0


    Logical Fallacy wrote: »
    It just makes their life a little easier to know what floor they elevator is at.

    This thread is nothing more than whingey ****ers gone mad tbh.

    Surely they'd know by how long it takes to get there.

    Back in the day I remember a flat where the lifts had only one set of doors. You'd see all the floors scrolling past you. No codology in those days


  • Options
    #15
    Kevin Duffy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,439 ✭✭✭Kevin Duffy


    The lift in my office sounds like Optimus Prime. I like it.


  • Options
    #16
    Logical Fallacy
    Registered Users Posts: 5,933 ✭✭✭Logical Fallacy


    eth0 wrote: »
    Surely they'd know by how long it takes to get there.

    Not really, just do an experiment next time you are in a lift. Close your eyes, wait for the lift to move and then predict what floor it's at.

    Would be the only real way to answer the question.

    Still not seeing how it's such a huge issue for ya beyond WF gone mad.


  • Options
    #17
    JCDUB
    Registered Users Posts: 1,225 ✭✭✭JCDUB


    :D;)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzneS2461u0


  • Options
    #18
    Kanoe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,522 ✭✭✭Kanoe


    chin_grin wrote: »
    What's your favourite humming noise?
    efb wrote: »
    Blind people

    :D


  • Options
    #19
    WoollyRedHat
    Registered Users Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    Mr.Crinklewood wrote: »
    Whenever I get The Luas, I find the voice woman very sexy.

    It must be a very tiring job, having to say the same thing every day to a bunch of passengers who are ungrateful and don't even bother listening anway :(


  • Options
    #20
    Ellis Dee
    Registered Users Posts: 2,512 ✭✭✭Ellis Dee


    The only place I've heard lifts talking is in Dublin - a sort of tinny Singaporean attempt at a Pippa-Middleton-being-shagged accent.;)

    What amuses me about lifts in Denmark is that they have a button that lights up when the lift has been summoned and is on its way. The text on it reads "i fart", which actually means "in motion", but they taped over all the buttons in the buildings the aul Windsor wan went to on her state visit to Denmark.:rolleyes:

    She must have a thing about flatulence.:D


  • Options
    #21
    InReality
    Registered Users Posts: 1,374 ✭✭✭InReality


    The "Luggage doors operate" always annoyed me.
    Shouldn't it be "Luggage doors operating" ?


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #22
    Jake Rugby Walrus666
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 528 ✭✭✭Jake Rugby Walrus666


    On the old fashioned lifts which just 'ping' I think you can feel free to add commentary. To help any blind people on board. Especially if your female and have an english accent.
    You could occasionally mix things up just to keep it exciting for all involved. Keep em on their toes.


Advertisement