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Forget text-to-speech for your on-board announcements, pre-recorded audio is better.

Posted on July 26, 2017
By Matt Schroeder
Forget text-to-speech for your on-board announcements, pre-recorded audio is better.
Turn up the volume on pre-recorded audio. By John Maglio, President ETA Transit Systems Full disclosure: I’ve always disliked text-to-speech (TTS). It’s a wholly impersonal means of conveying critical information to passengers. From the sanitary, robotic pronunciation to the complete lack of support for local multi-lingual dialects. TTS is a poor way to connect with…
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Has your transit agency embraced digital communications?

Posted on June 13, 2017
By lltetamain
Has your transit agency embraced digital communications?
You know that shiny new Intelligent Transit System (ITS) your agency just invested hundreds of thousands of dollars to deploy? Well, odds are, you’ve only scratched the surface of one the most powerful and impactful features—its digital communication capabilities. We're talking automatic voice announcements, automatic stop announcements, and passenger information display system—the whole shebang. Digital…
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Don’t get your buses in a bunch.

Posted on March 22, 2017
By ETA Transit
Don’t get your buses in a bunch.
Modern transit agencies are continually challenged to improve the efficiency of their operations. It is often a challenging balancing act to minimize passenger wait times while maintaining an efficient passenger load. If vehicles run too closely together, passenger wait times and the efficiency of passenger loads will suffer. (This is when a bus tracker or…
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