Potter EVAX25 / Edwards ANS25 RAW Voice Files?

Fire Alarm Help
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Does anyone have these EVAX messages?

  • “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.

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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).

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That is correct, it’s usually heard on the ANS25/50/100, it’s kinda lost media right now, but hopefully someone extracts the EEPROMs someday.

And yes, I think that it was a really dumb decision for Potter to delete the original messages.

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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).

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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.

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Oh, really? Good idea then.

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!)

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Well, Hochiki hasn’t even responded to me, oh well…

I might try contacting Bosch, since they also once manufactured their line of rebranded EVAX Panels (assuming that they still have the old messages, despite the panel is now discontinued).

If not, I might buy another ElevenLabs subscription again, so I can recreate the message with AI, and use one of the other messages as a voice model.

Until somebody extracts the raw version someday, (and possibly any other messages) from an EEPROM, AI is the best option right now.