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oh it was probably “Two Pounds And Fifty Pence” with a similar rhythm come to think of it

@hikari hello. and welcome. your airtime balance is............. three pounds! ......... .. and thirty ................ nine pence.
main menu.
to top up, for for anything to do with adding credit to your phone, press 1

@hikari virgin mobile used to have this really sharp contrast between the extremely chirpy and down-with-the-kids radio-style vocal delivery and the massive gaps and completely dislocated phrases and sentences. it was like a sirius cybernetics corp version of lauren laverne

@hikari Eingefahrener Zug auf Gleis... zwei... Bitte steigen Sie ein.

@hikari gods that takes me back. I remember these menus so well ❤️

@hikari huh, that rhythm doesn't seem weird at all to us. there's definitely more than one TTS system in the US that does the exact same thing, although we can't pinpoint exactly which at this point

@hikari oh lol, figured it out

it's the excessively chatty Safeway self-checkout voice

@r oh this is very much standard for phone menus, it's just one i know particularly well and keep coming back to for some reason

@saagar @hikari yes, we're aware of those as well. we're not from that cultural background though, so we cannot speak to the problems that might exist there

we can only speak to *our own* experience of growing up very culturally non-integrated