This next song is brought to you by... an incomprehensible robot

[hykos1045]

Which do you dislike more, the B101 robot reading the name of every song, or the PST robot announcing "this great song has been brought to you by..."? I have gripes with both. I have almost become accustomed to B101 barking the name of every song at me, my main criticism of it is that it should tone down the ones that are already well known in the public domain and don't "need" to be announced every day, such as: Billy Joel and Elton John. The robot becomes sort of monotonous, and reminds you that (a) their playlist is too tight and (b) their DJ talent is delapidating like everyone else's.

The PST robot is TERRIBLE. It doesn't enunciate, at all. The station has a demo that likely doesn't desire to be talked down to by robots, as no demo would. If the jukebox format is going to be listened to, it needs to be less monotonous. More upbeat. You know, like Alice 104-5 (was) and Sunny 104-5 (was) and Radio 104-5 is now.

 

[JH_Radio]

i think radio is losing all of its personality. i dont understand how they can call themselves radio stations....

 

[nd2023]

Jelli 96.7 in Vegas also uses that robot all day long. PST just does it at night.

 

[DToTheJ]

2WD in Norfolk recently started using a female "robot" to backsell their songs. This same "robot" is the official imaging voice of the station, so at least this bot has a little personality.

 

[joshzz]

One of our boards can convert a normal male voice to a female voice or vice versa. It can also convert to robot. My question is who actually decided to use robot voices in the first place? If someone would have told me that a major radio station is using a robot voice I wouldn't have believed it. Now there are a fair number of stations doing just that. We won't be doing it on LIFT FM (NEW JERSEY) anytime soon.