Prague is looking for a new voice in public transport. It will be decided by the people in the survey
The Prague Transport Company is looking for a new voice that will announce stops and other information for passengers in buses and trams on city and suburban lines. He has launched an audio poll on the web, in which people can choose between four votes until June 19. The winner will take over the baton after Dagmar Hazdrová, who has been recording traffic announcements and the names of Prague public transport stops since 1996.
People can only vote once for one of the four votes selected by the expert committee for the final. “Ladies and gentlemen in equal votes are equally represented in them. They will probably seem familiar to you, you have heard them in dubbing or at theater performances.
Passengers can hear the competition voices live on selected connections of tram line 9 and bus line 136.
“Each vote is recorded in one tram and one bus, and these vehicles are marked with a special external and internal field indicating the survey, including a QR code, after which the passenger gets directly do online pollsThe server warned Zdopravy.cz.
The results will be known by the end of June, the first recordings of the new voice could appear at the turn of September and October.
There are over four thousand stops in the Prague integrated transport network, ie in the capital and the surrounding Central Bohemian regions. The recordings of the stops must be continuously updated, the report is generated gradually as needed.
Each of the three Prague metro lines also has a voice. On line A, Světlana Lavičková reports the names of stations and other instructions, on line B the voice of the late Eva Jurinová sounds, the report on line C was made by Tomáš Černý. This year, the transport company started the construction of a new line D, which is to lead from Pankrác to Písnice.
Eighty-eight-year-old radio announcer Dagmar Hazdrová has been the voice of Prague’s trams and buses for the past almost 30 years. Passengers could hear her voice in other cities as well. However, she decided to stop recording some time ago, so the transport company began looking for a replacement.
In March this year, Hazdrová became an honorary citizen of Prague. He received the award for extraordinary deeds during the August invasion of Soviet troops in 1968, when he truthfully reported on the dramatic events of the time on Czechoslovak Radio.