“Attention, Attention! An emergency has been reported in this building. Please stop operations and leave the building immediately. Use the nearest exit, or fire exit stairway. Do not use the elevators, repeat, do not use the elevators.”
“Attention, Attention! There is a weather emergency. Please proceed to the nearest shelter immediately.”
I asked Potter for them through email, but the worker said that they deleted the old messages when they upgraded them.
The first one is the emergency evacuation message heard on Edwards/EST-rebranded Evax panels, right? (it’s said by a male voice actor) As for the second one, I know of similar, but not identical, ones that can be found in one of Potter’s software programs (one male, one female: both have the exact same script).
What a dumb idea on their part & what a waste (provided he means that they deleted the original master recordings).
Ah okay, thought so. Yeah (especially with recent efforts by some to do so with several different brands’ EEPROMs).
Yeah (though it arguably kinda depends on whether they simply deleted them from newer renditions of whatever voice panel(s) of theirs uses them or whether they deleted the master recordings instead).
I’ve contacted Hochiki for the messages since they also have a rebranded EVAX, but I don’t know if they have that old message.
The worker also sent me some messages and tones, but I cannot give them out.
It’s copyrighted material, I can share the scripts though, and they appear to be from the same male voice actor.
Seriously? Jeez companies go way overboard with copyright nowdays…(it’s literally just audio files of a person talking people, not the nuclear codes for Pete’s sake!)
Modern ANS units use the default female EVAX message (alarmmessage.mp3), and EVAX tones (T1.mp3 to T15.mp3). There are no EST specific assets in there.
Older units (typically have a GE logo) use that older male message, which sounds similar to the EST Message 1 (aka: “cease operations”).
The support person from Edwards said to me that if I have the ANS system and those messages are in there, they could be extracted from the ANS.
This is a Micro USB-based method where you flip a DIP switch called SN-1, and you can view the files using Windows Explorer, but keep in mind that this does not apply to all EVAX amplifiers though, especially older units, like those manufactured before Potter bought EVAX in 2015, and before USB was invented.
Oh, okay. Did you somehow get the latter through emailing Edwards? (since something tells me they wouldn’t be willing to just give out what’s technically their intellectual property to someone they don’t know) Also: do both generations have EVAX’s tones regardless of whatever message they have?
Thesdx, who owned a GE-branded ANS100, described that one as a “male EST2 or 3 message” once (even though I don’t believe I’ve ever heard such a message on any system with an EST2 or EST3).
I am comparing the scripts, yes, I know it says “stop operations”:
GE ANS:
“Attention, Attention! An emergency has been reported in this building. Please stop operations and leave the building immediately. Use the nearest exit, or fire exit stairway. Do not use the elevators, repeat, do not use the elevators.”
EST Guy:
“Attention, Attention! An emergency has been reported in this building. Please cease operations and leave the building, utilizing the nearest exit, or fire exit stairway. Do not use elevators, repeat, do not use elevators.”
My theory is that EST wanted to use a different script, and EVAX recorded it for them.
It makes sense because the “weather emergency” script had the same voice as the EST one, and the"weather emergency" message was played over a regular non-EST branded EVAX.
Ah okay (wonder why they removed those two tones though: it’s good to have options isn’t it?).
Oh? Huh, alright (surprised they’d be so lenient but then again they are Edwards, probably one of the best & nicest companies still left in the biz).
I know: it’s odd that thesdx said that when they’ve supposedly never been used on the EST2 or EST3 (unless he was referring to the similar script that it has to one of those 7 Edwards/EST male messages).