F Great Eastern
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I hope other operators under the Abellio company don’t go the same way as GA have and replace their P.A system with an inferior text-to-speech system.
I think the TTS system is provided by Blackbox but it’s optional as to whether the TOCs want to use it or not.
It is - some stations got the new screens and kept the old announcements for a while.
In a few GA stations there were Infotec screens and Blackbox screens running at the same time with announcements from the legacy system and it was noticeable that the Blackbox screens were less accurate and slower to break latest information than the legacy stuff.
Not sure if it's improved since March, haven't been on a train for a while.
I wouldn't be surprised if JourneyCheck was on borrowed time and replaced with something far less transparent.