Talk:Voice-tracking

New page. Give it time. I've got necessary graphics to put together. --Xj14y 22:41, 29 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Time Checks
As a listener, the biggest tip-off that the DJ isn't there is when they never give the time. Satellite feeds may give time, but not the hour, i.e. "it's 20 minutes past the hour," time zone unknown. 75.69.160.252 (talk) 02:11, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

One system I know of, NexGen Digital, will do time announces. Your talent records various times, then a placeholder 'time announce' is scheduled in the log. When it plays back, the appropriate time is played back. BigD and Bubba use this for some of their voicetracked markets to provide a more integrated show. (I will not add this to the page because I'm an employee of the automation company. References are available in the software help guide, which can be found either through the software website or the anonymous ftp, ftp.rcsoga.com/anonymous/documentation. This is not official, I'm stating this on my own and not in association with the company. Just thought you might be interested.)Freshgroundcoffee (talk) 02:52, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Controversy
As an Australian broadcaster I have to add another argument in favour of vt'ing. Until circa the mid 90s many smaller regional markets, especially in the geographically isolated state of Western Australia, would simply rebroadcast capital city programs overnight since taylored automation was tricky or expensive to installl

Most would use automation systems that would insert local promos and commercial breaks via satellite pulsing, (eg. 6fms...now WAFM, REDFM...) not all mind you...some wouldn't even bother trying to localise the feed. . As a kid I remember hearing one town's local spots (Radio 747 Esperance...now part of RadioWest) all heavily distorted without remedy for a week. Almost all would feature constant mismatching of local and network break times, leading to crashes back into cap city program midway through commercials, or worse, the interminable sound of generic production music beds (usually featuring highly repetitive melodies) playing as time fillers. I often heard them in their entirety, 3 or 4 minutes worth, before they would fade and rejoin the satellite feed for the final seconds of a song, a real song, like one the public would find in a record store.

This without even mentioning the irritation caused by content (weather, competitions, call-ins or general chat) completely irrelevant to the audience of the relayed feed.

I don't deny that even with current technology, badly executed examples of network programming are broadcast regularly here in Oz. Sadly I hear this sort of audio-ebola most times I tune in outside the range of metro transmitters, sometimes even on metro radio. But at least there are some communities that now get to hear radio made intentionally for them. It may well be generic, pre-recorded and made elswhere...but if done with thought it's more relevant than what they used to put up with.

Ok...more of a diatribe than i intended, but current methods of voice tracking have lead to vast improvements in what some listeners are served...not all...but some is better than not at all. 121.215.79.1 (talk) 14:50, 30 May 2013 (UTC)

Redesign and Refresh
This whole article needs work - the information is too detailed or useless in some parts, but lacking key information in others.

The sections don't make sense either. I don't know how to flag the whole page/article as needing help, but I tried with using my very limited knowledge of Wikipedia and the subject matter. Lamarr Otems (talk) 17:09, 16 October 2021 (UTC)

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