TransLink Podcast: Meet with the sound of SkyTrain
Your listen to the latest voice daily as it narrates your SkyTrain travel, letting you know what the second channel was, hence top the fresh new gates will open, and locations to change trains and you can get off to own bus connections. But i have you questioned which brand new voice is part of?
It is Laureen Regan, a sound actor regarding Calgary! From the episode, she shares how she got the job of course, if she had so you can audition, exactly what its such as to own their own reading by herself operating new SkyTrain, what she discovers most fascinating towards employment, of course, if she will get accepted.
Transcript
Host JAWN JANG: Hello, introducing What’s the T: the new TransLink Podcast. I am the server, Jawn Jang, and on which event, I am seated to have a chat with this person…
JAWN: As we start up season three, we should take a moment to appear as well as reflect on a number of the high emails, personalities, and you will benefits you to we now have had about program, of faculty to engineers, technicians to providers. We’ve got came across unnecessary skilled people who helped keep Urban area Vancouver’s transit system moving. But there is however only one person whose sound is actually similar to new SkyTrain, and her name’s Laureen Regan.
TransLink Podcast: Meet the sound of SkyTrain
JAWN: People five lines are particularly just your everyday travel, if in case you take new SkyTrain. Indeed, one line is so iconic one from inside the framework stage off so it podcast, we really believed naming this podcast, The following route was . Today, sooner, i got on What is the T, but that’s the kind of perception men and women conditions can have.
Now, prior to i sit-down towards voice away from SkyTrain herself, i planned to take to a theory. You’ll anybody else sandwich in to make people SkyTrain announcements? Will we provides a possible voiceover celeb someplace nowadays? Producer Vince and i also took place so you’re able to Waterfront Station to get next high SkyTrain voice.
JAWN: You will be indeed really good at this. Its Jawn Jang at Waterfront Station to possess What’s the T: the brand new TransLink Podcast. Today, we will make a move fun. We shall ask a number of our people provide you their feeling of the SkyTrain voice.
JAWN: Julia, you slain they. Including have you been a sound actor of the people options? Particularly, what do you do having a full time income? Eg, what on earth?
Perchance you must provide us with your best effect. I’m particularly you really have an effective group of pipelines for the you. Just what exactly do you think?
Person step one: I will however do this to you. Yeah. Ok, better, I could say the next avoid is actually Waterfront Route.
JAWN: Oh, I really like you to. I adore which you had a refreshing, strong sound too. Which contributes certain bass and you may baritone to it. Would you play such as, would be the fact something that you create?
JAWN: The fresh goat, in reality. A of them all. The first voice of SkyTrain throughout the skin. The one and only Laureen Regan. As i told you, for many individuals, Laureen’s sound is something that people spent my youth with living in Location Vancouver, narrating the commutes. One station Durham, CA in USA wives at a time. And you will after all such many years, those individuals SkyTrain notices will still be perfect.
JAWN: I had the ability to sit back having Laureen to possess a beneficial long awaited talk with most get acquainted with the person behind this legendary sound.
I mean, let’s rating directly into it. New sound of SkyTrain. Somebody that has lived around, lived here its entire lifetime, otherwise those who are just visiting the very first time within the Area Vancouver. Most of them would be using the SkyTrain during the one-point or another, and they’ll hear the sound. It is just public transportation near this region. Therefore primary concern for your requirements. How achieved it the begin? Such just how did you score selected once the sound of one’s SkyTrain?