Get to know the English voice of the trams and subways in Budapest

If you have ever used the public transport in Budapest, even if only trams 4 and 6, you must have heard the voice of Rachel Appleby: she did the recording of the names of the stops in English. It is also her who says the name of the next stop in English at metro lines 2 and 4. Kossuth Radio made an interview with the woman who was born North-England but has been living in Budapest for years now, reports Index.

It turned out that Rachel teaches at the English department of ELTE (Eötvös Loránd University) and one of her colleagues told her that BKK was looking for a female voice with British accent and she happily undertook it. One can find out from the short interview, available in the article of Hirado.hu, that much editing was needed, but one can also notice how Rachel speaks in Hungarian quite well. It is worth listening, because it is unusual to hear the well-known voice in Hungarian, moreover, she talks about something completely different from what we got used to hear from her.

She tels that ll. János Pál papa tér was the most difficult to remember out of all the names of the subway stops, because the order of the names is not natural for her this way. And Puskás Ferenc Stadion is just simply difficult to pronounce.