I used to think Edwards only had those male EST Guy messages.
The story regarding those female messages can be found here: Edwards Vigilant Severe Weather Message
I also recently found some old Wheelock messages in TFP Discord server, like:
“This is an audio system test.”
“May I have your attention please? The National Weather Service has issued a severe weather warning, for our area.”
“May I have your attention please? A fire emergency has been reported in the building. While this is being verified, please standby for further instructions.”
They sorta still do I believe. I’d love to have a listen to that audio file (along with any others I might find), but thanks to Roblox being jerks & no longer allowing people to preview sound files without logging in I can’t.
Well I for one have known about those for years, & they’re easy to get if you know where to look.
The audio file on Roblox is the same WX-ALERT.wav file, just without that slow whoop tone at the beginning.
Also, I recently helped someone on Reddit get raw EVAX messages (even the whoop tone) by referring them to Edwards Signaling to request the ANS files, and they actually got them: Evax Voice evac RAW whoop & message files (needs) - Reddit
However, since they didn’t reach you back that one time, I was thinking about DM-ing the ANS files to you (not the broader EVAX library), as long as you promise not to share them.
I think I found the first raw Simplex female voice file! (other than @dewpoint8900’s EEPROM extractions from this year)
I guess educational facilities are one way to get free voice messages!
I found some new Simplex voice files on Sauk Valley Community College!
The other 5 Simplex recordings from SVCC use the same exact voice actor from those Air Force Messages that @dewpoint8900 extracted from that 4100ES back in January.
This is most likely Simplex Guy V2 (or “New Simplex Guy” as you like to call him)
Excellent finds again! I’m disappointed by how bass-boosted they are though (& for seemingly no reason as well).
Maybe, but now I’m honestly unsure if Simplex does indeed now have a different male voice actor recording their messages, since ever since I found an episode of NOVA narrated by who might be “Old Simplex Guy”, Don Wescott, it seems like he kept on voicing Simplex’s messages, so there may not actually be two different male voice actors (maybe a new one does record some of the really new ones like those heard on MRIDNETGUY2004 & Roxxofoxxo’s systems though).
The sad reality is, while I found some real gems by searching for such safety training pages, I wouldn’t keep relying on educational facilities though for free voice messages, I was not able to find any other raw files from a major manufacturer being hosted on an educational facility’s website as of this time.
Most of them may be concerned about the potential copyright concerns (as safety training page, it may be covered by Fair Use as a legal defense for educational purposes), or that they may still use older systems like a Wheelock SAFEPATH, that do not have the ability to export raw files using programming software.
I mean, sure, but what other (remaining/undiscovered) sources are there really? None that I know of (maybe if it was possible to search the entire Internet for such files that wouldn’t be the case, but last I checked it’s not, so yeah).
That awaits to be seen, regardless, the most important thing that matters is that the community will benefit from these rare finds (especially those Simplex messages), and more messages will eventually be extracted and discovered in the future, which is exactly what’s going to happen as time goes on.
With that said, I found another educational facility, Northwestern University, they have externally recorded Wheelock SAFEPATH messages.
I didn’t know a third version of the male standby message exists, it’s the same script, but a different recording. Nor did I know about that female message. (it’s the same voice actor from the “designated assembly area” message, it’s probably a “classic” recording from the 2000s era)
Exactly my thoughts as well: the more messages that can be found the better for sure.
Oh? Neat! Nice job once more! (kinda stinks that they’re not the raw files like with other sources, but hey: at least we know about their existence in some form to begin with! (& of course have recordings of them as well)
I didn’t either. Yeah though.
Mhm: I’m pretty sure that is indeed the same female voice actor that recorded the female version of that message.
I found the old Wheelock “Sound Clips” site with the messages from the 2000s saved in the Wayback Machine!
According to this document, there appears to have once been Spanish messages offered by Wheelock, but listed in a document as scripts only, they never hosted the actual audio files themselves.
Even though Wheelock didn’t include audio clips of the Spanish messages, at least everybody now gets to hear “This is an audio system test.”, or the old “National Weather Service” message.