You must have heard this sound every time at the railway station and have imitated it many times. But do you know who is the face behind this voice? Let us tell you whose voices are heard on railways and metro.
The voice making the announcement at the railway station is that of Sarla Chaudhary. Sarla had applied for this post in 1982 and after taking the exam, she was appointed to Daily Wages. However, Sarla is no longer on this post.
She left this job 12 years ago and got posted as Office Superintendent in the OHE department. But her voice was saved on standby mode, because of which till today we hear this voice at the railway station.
FACED VARIOUS DIFFICULTIES
Earlier, due to the lack of such advanced technology, they had to put in a lot of effort to make announcements. She had to go to different stations at the right time to make announcements. It had to be recorded in many languages.
Those days, it used to take three to four days to record an announcement. Later, after the development of Railways, the job of making all the announcements of the railway station was given to the Train Management System.
Shami And Rini Are Behind Voice In The Metro
On the other hand, the voices heard at the metro station are those of Shami Narang and Rini Khanna. Their story is also quite interesting. Shami was an engineering student and while roaming on his college campus he met a foreign engineer, who was testing a microphone.
That engineer asked Shami for help by saying something in that microphone. Shami thought, the white man would not understand my words so he started speaking and his voice impressed the engineer. Later it was found out that the person was a technical director in the United States Information Service. After this Shami Narang got a job in Voice of America and after that, he lent his voice to Doordarshan and many commercials.
