I never thought her voice sounded robotic!!! It just sounded like a very professional and pleasant voice!!!! I always loved her voice!!! Thank you, and please continue to do these excellent voice overs!!!
I'm a voiceover artist and it was obvious the she is a real voice/person. It is also obvious that she had been in the industry for a very long time because of her cadence (which we call "radio voice") and the subject matter she chooses. There's a wide variety of AI voice options, but that particular cadence is not one of the "delivery" (style) options. And most will opt for a more contemporary style.
Hanging out with a professional DJ in a radio booth was pretty eye-opening when I had the opportunity. "Radio voice" is real. It's an affect. Radio people sound like radio people when they're on the air. In person, when they're off the air, they talk like normal folks. It takes professional voice training or intuition to develop radio voice. That RE20 also has a very particular *sound* and you perform in a way that makes that mic sound best. Modern podcasting condenser mics sound and act quite different, and you vocalize into them differently than if you're using an RE20. I really like that Steve uses an RE20 and knows how to work it: these videos would be quite a bit different if he used a condenser mic, or a non-Electro-Voice dynamic mic. Those extra, tuned, air channels on the backside of EV's dynamic mics make a pretty big difference. I've got an EV 664, an earlier model in the runup to the RE20, and it doesn't behave like most dynamic mics. It's got, like, the EV "juice" that makes it special. For a long time I used the 664, into a mic preamp, into an RNC 1773 compressor in Super Nice mode, on Mumble/Teamspeak/Discord. "Super Nice" mode is three compressors in series and has super low levels of compression artifacts like pumping.
@@DonOblivious that’s great but I can’t hear the difference in your text? What’s wrong with this message? It always sounds the same no matter what speaker it goes thru
@@canadianrobotlady dear lady a question for you, please? Regarding your parting words of wisdom and humor concluding each episode...are they provided by you or by Steve? Thank you!
@@canadianrobotlady I mentioned it in a different comment, but your voice really reminds me of one of the hosts of As It Happens from the 90's or 2000's - my dad used to listen to it religiously, so I heard it a lot too
Retired broadcast engineer here. I was transmitter engineer with downtown studio. A few times the jocks would go across the street from the studio and forget their elevator key to get back into the studio. I had to call the PD who had to drive downtown to let him in. All the while I'm playing music on carts to fill the dead air from the studio. Or the downtown jock fell asleep during a snog, Again I had to play music at the transmitter. Oh what fun in the old days!!!!!!!!
I know nothing about the radio biz as it is or was but it seems like an interesting profession and ditto the engineering aspect. I had a buddy who went to technical school to become a broadcast engineer and he got a job offer right out of tech school but some tragic life events intervened and he demurred and never got back into it. Oddly, it never occurred to me in my life path though I suppose some of my training kind of set me up for it and I wonder if it was something I ought to have pursued. I was in the Navy at 17, but got transferred to the army and went SF and was a commo sgt amongst the various army MOS I picked up (mostly combat arms, but radio repair, comsec ops and repair, then SF commo before I eventually went to OCS). Looking back, I likely would have a been a reasonable candidate to be running the gear at a radio station, but it never really occurred to me, except via some movies and reading what you wrote, that the stations would be only a skeleton crew, especially in the old days. Your perspective is appreciated.
I remember the local DJ who actually explained why he let the record skip for so long. He went to the restroom and the door locked behind him. He had to find a janitor to let him in. For me, I don't want to do anything live.
I work in radio now... These nightmares still exist. Difference is, modern automation helps the gear call (ideally) for problems at zero-dark-thirty and can (usually but not always) be corrected remotely. The panic is still the same though.
I worked on the air at a regional AM/FM station for four years in the early eighties. Intros, outros, jingles, commercials and PSAs were on carts, music was on reel to reel and we also spun records. And yes...all these years later I still have those exact same nightmares that you both described. The song is ending and nothing is cued up while tape is spooling off the reel.
What kind of mic are you using? Is it a ribbon mic or something like an EV or Shure? I played mx from all carts (kinda like Z100) with 8 ITC 99b's. Somehow some of the announcers would manage to not let a cart que up. This was usually with mx carts.
I’ve always been impressed with the intro lady’s voice. She always sounded so smooth and made me think I was tuning into a professional show. And Canadian, to boot! 🇨🇦
I never noticed that your robot had a Canadian accent. Great program. I have to admit that I don't often watch till the end but this one was a sure thing. Thanks!
Thanks for reposting this interview, Steve, for those of us who have really only started watching in the last couple of years. Hearing you two talk about your days in radio brought back a lot of memories. I went to Fanshawe back in 1986 to study Broadcast Journalism. But I ultimately ended up in Print Journalism mainly because of my voice. The year I spent in that industry was one of the most bruising years of my life because I was hearing from people-often without even asking them for their opinion-just how bad they thought my voice my voice sounded. Later, I would do a political TV show and never heard a peep from anyone about the voice. I ended up doing that show for three years and enjoyed it. Either the market had somehow gotten used to raspy, gravely voices by then (this would have been about 2004-2007) or because they could see the “whole package” so to speak, it didn’t matter. I have kept in touch with some of my former radio colleagues over the years and was always jealous of those who had a great radio voice. I, unfortunately, just wasn’t that lucky. I have/had the skills for journalism down pat, but not the voice. As an 18-year-old, I let the comments about my voice get to me. Now, I could care less because I have since learned to look at it from an alternative perspective-my voice is just unique. And if a listener or viewer doesn’t like it, I could care less!
I have had people tell me that I sound like a foreigner. Don't know how many times I have been asked what country that I'm from. The look of shock on their faces when I say this one is always funny.
@@canadianrobotladyit is nice to have a personality connected to the voice. I listen to a LOT of audiobooks, and the narrators are just voices unless you see them in a personal context in some way. Like RC Bray, until he started having issues with his voice, he used to do the odd live book launch and just chat to the audience. I did always think you were human, the flow of your words are too natural. Do you record an audiobooks, and if so are any sci-fi/fantasy and which ones?
Heather's closing comments are what keeps me listening to the end 😅. I never thought she was a robot, because I knew a few radio hosts with similarly excellent diction. I also remember when a lady with a very sultry voice making announcements at a Brazilian (?) airport retired, and frequent travelers Missed her voice, suggesting that they shouldn't have 'altered' it... as if she weren't real.😅
I loved this episode. Later in life I dabbled in DJ work (party and wedding) and community broadcast TV production. Behind the scenes broadcast anecdotes hit so many interests for me. Thanks for this.
I enjoyed Oingo Boingo, (sp?) album covers. Was it called "Only a Lad". Also, younger people would probably recognize some movie soundtracks composed by Danny Elfman,(again sp.?). Loverboy is a personal favorite band with many lesser played songs and albums worth listening to. Rush was criminally under appreciated in their early days but thankfully their amazing music has proven to be way ahead of it's time. Thank you Canada and thanks Steve for bringing back this episode.
Oingo Boingo was huge here in LA, played quite often on KROQ. Yes, "Only a Lad" is an awesome song and album. But I think the song he was thinking of is "Dead Man's Party."
It's nice to hear this interview with a fellow Canadian. As someone who's been friends with folks on radio for years it's nice to hear the radio talk too. Thanks!
My favorite radio story: in Cleveland we had the ultra high power WGAR and a little competitor, WIXY. One day I was driving along and WIXY suddenly became *VeRy LoUd StAtiC...scraping and warbling*. I turned the volume down and kept driving; after a few minutes it went to dead air. Another few minutes and finally the jingle! "WIXY 1260!" and into a commercial. The the DJ comes on and says "Well folks I've checked everything here and it all looks OK... so it must be your radio."
It was great to hear that. Having done janitorial at a couple radio stations, and my father having been a ham radio operator, I was always interested in their equipment. I also was a floor guard at a roller skating rink at the time. I remember talking to a DJ about how people would tell us to get a real job. I remember one of the guys jetting out of the restroom saying the song's almost over, running from the back of the station to the front. If I remember correctly he made it in time. I remember a station that would record the previous hours, and play the tape later at night till morning. I looked at working at a radio station, but kept pulling out the wrong cartridges, as I am somewhat dyslexic. I was better at facility maintenance. The not so robot lady sounds great. It was good to hear her talk about what she does. Thanks.
When I was in college, I had a part time job at an upscale country club manicuring the ice for their curling rink. I had a brass can filled with water and walked along the length of each rink swinging the hose/spout so that it pebbled the ice. The pebbling is critical to the sport, so the curlers would give you a lot of input on how good or not your pebbling was that night. We received a duty meal every night and we could pretty much order what we wanted from the main kitchen, so I was eating well at that time.
Hey you two...being from Cleveland, the Capital of Rock and Roll, the station WMMS "Home of The Buzzard," broke both Rush and Triumph in the US in the late 70s when album rock format was growing. We loved Canada! I highly recommend the band Blue Rodeo from Toronto! I know Robot Lady knows who they are! ;-) Great show/interview folks! PS Loved Captain Canuck comics in the early 80s, as well!
@@canadianrobotlady For me, I always hang on until the end (unless he says there will be an ad at the end) so I can hear Canadian Robot Lady’s pithy sayings.
Lots of relatable stories from you jocks from my era of occupying sound-proofed booths. And, not one moment of dead air! You hit on all the important aspects of being a deejay during those awesome days / nights. Thanks for the trip down memory lane. And, by the way, "In A Gadda Da Vida" is still the best song for bathroom breaks. J
I live 20 miles from the Canadian border and listen to a Victoria BC radio station, The Q 100.3, and she sounds familiar. I have always known that she is a living person. Edit: my first record player had 4 speeds 16, 33, 45 and 78. I was never able to find a 16 record. I heard it was for speaking records. You could put 90 minutes of talking on one 12 inch record.. Edit2: I like Curling because it requires thinking and skill not just physical strength. It reminds me more of billards on ice.
I was literally just randomly thinking about it and then this video popped up! I always assumed it was his wife! How people thought it was a robot is funny because I can hear the Midwestern/Central Canadian accent
I worked swing shift in LA radio in the late 80s, and we had all our music on cart. I never had that exact dream, but the dream I had was I would start a song, turn around to grab the next cart, and the song that was playing would be done! In the dream I kept grabbing carts, pulling out finished songs, and slapping in new ones. One thing that I did while wide awake -- I was unlocking my front door at home and just before walking in I looked up to see if the On-Air light was on. My favorite story, one of the guys was reading a quick weather report, something like, "It'll be 85 in the valleys, 89 inland, 78 at the beaches, good air quality is forecast for the basin, and at our KKLA studios in North Hollywood it's 81 degrees." I stepped up after he turned off the mic and the info sheet was totally blank. He just made up the whole thing.
I had assumed that she was a real person, and then in one of your videos I heard you call her the canadian robot lady, and that made me think she was actually just text to speech! Happy to finally find out the history here.
I am old enough to remember AT&T telephone operators. They were all real people, and were specifically trained to sound very similar to each other. This was done so that you didn't have somebody from Boston talking to an operator from the deep south, and neither being able to understand each other! But it was almost as if you were always talking to the same operator. Spooky, but do-able.
In the Army we had to speak clearly over the radio. Once, on the phone with my bank, I had to convince the person on the other end that I was not a robot because I pronounced a series of numbers in my radio voice.
25:00 As a Canadian, I'll add to the Canadian rock music that's worth listening to: Devin Townsend, Propagandhi, Billy Talent, Protest the Hero, PUP, Alexisonfire, and Death from Above 1979 are all worth checking out.
For a kid trying to record music off the radio, the intro and outro were our enemies. I started when I got my hands on a small reel to reel portable. Larry Lujack, Tommie Edwards, John Records Landecker and Bob Sirot controlled my teenage years of listening.
I was a volunteer dj for a university station in San Antonio, Texas, in the early 80s and fondly remember the carts, announcements, and all those turntable tricks we had to perform. Especially remember coming back from a short bathroom break to hear the needle skipping on the record, and seeing the telephone ringer light flashing as listeners were calling in to tell me! Thanks for the memories
In college I ran a radio show late night with some college mates of mine was a great time really late at night we got a couple of calls mostly at the start of our show asking for more of the last show lol. We ended up calling ourselves no one's listening because more often than not probably was the case but it was a great time well we did it.
I watch/listen to the end to hear her little nuggets of wisdom or wise cracks. Really enjoy hearing those. TBH, there's been times i ffw over Steve waxing poetic or belaboring some point just to hear her outro.
Richard Anthony Crispian Francis Prew Hope-Weston, known professionally as Tommy Vance, and famous for the Friday Rock Show in the UK, turned up at a radio station where (the real) Tommy Vance has either failed to turn up or quit. I forget which. They had just made up a whole bunch of "carts" and rather than waste them he just adopted the name and got the job. One I remember from the Friday Rock Show was "TV on the radio!"
A few personal notes on Canada. I drove through Canada to Alaska 3 times. First time was early April 2015. I had every single item in my Prius removed as part of a random CBP border search, including all items in the roof-bag. It was hard to tetris everything back into place. My Tom-Tom GPS missed the Alaska Highway just outside Edmonton. Two right lanes on the Yellowknife Hwy exit to the right and become the Alaska Hwy. The Yellowknife continued straight through Jasper Provincial Park. Highway is gated with guards. You have to promise you are only driving and not camping or else they charge a camping fee. Anyway, the unintended detour cost me an extra 250 miles via the Cassiar Hwy. It was 900 miles of rain in BC. I listened to Canadian radio stations as long as possible through BC so that I could make my collection of Rush CD's useful during the two days of driving without radio in northern BC and Yukon. Radio choices were thin. The last AM station I received in BC was the host interviewing the parks and rec director. In a span of 10 minutes, he said, "...get the kids oot and aboot" over 20 times since even HE was tired of indoor life. Mid-April doncha' know? Eh? Got to film a herd of Buffalo sunning on the road while "Mesopotamia" by the B52's was playing on my CD. Black bears love the grass in the newer portions of highway shoulders, since the trees are removed and plenty of sun grows the grass first. In Yukon, about 50 miles from Whitehorse, two people pulled to the side of the road to film a horse. I laughed at such a silly thing until I realized there was no fence and it was a wild horse. Second trip "up" was mid-September. I was the only car going to Alaska and only 5 cars leaving AK during the last 500 miles. About 80 miles from the Alaska border, a horse was in the middle of the road. I stopped with the engine running and window open. I got out and figured it's my turn to film a horse. This one had a bell around its neck. Aha. An hour later, I almost hit a caribou. I learned why people hit things. Caribou was jumping from right to left. Hard braking and steering left was a BAD choice. Next time steer INTO the animal and behind it if possible. Third trip up minivan with 7 aboard and 1,200# trailer. 63mph maximum everywhere. We saw 20+ bears on the highway. Family was sick of me slowing down after the 7th one. "We know what a bear looks like!" Leaving the Whitehorse, YT hotel last, checking out, and prepping the van, family said, "We're going to Tim Horton's. Me driving with a trailer in busy downtown circling Tim Hortons to pick them up. "We're standing outside!" No you're not! There were Tim Hortons just blocks from each other. Yikes. Family picked radio or their CD but I picked music the last 2 hours of driving to stay awake each day. Rush, of course.
I have always thought she was real... I think she's great and just love her comments at the end of the videos... Love her comments and she has a great voice... Steve I wish we could have seen her on your video... I know she might not want to be on camera but it would be great to see her as well. Her voice is so great....
OMG!!! Steve has been taken over by a time traveling Canadian robot! 🤣 Honestly, I assumed that she was a relative (wife?) or one of his staff (admin/paralegal). I never thought she was a professional voice artist from Canada. 🤯
Heather has a beautiful voice.
Thank you Heather for distracting us from Steve’s voice. ;)
Thank you for supporting our channels!
I was kinda hoping to see what she looks like!
But I'm guessing that keeps the mystery going.
these are the types of voices robot/AI voices are based on.....
@@DannyWildmann Heather Bambrick. Google it.
Corny ah
I’ve always found her voice comforting & calming but never robotic.
She should have her own ASMR channel.
The reason she “sounds like a robot”, is because she’s a seasoned professional! I’ve never doubted it for a second! ❤😂🎉
I never thought her voice sounded robotic!!! It just sounded like a very professional and pleasant voice!!!! I always loved her voice!!! Thank you, and please continue to do these excellent voice overs!!!
Thank you! I'll be here!
Yep, she was around before AI
Agree, never thought Heather was a robot voice. Sounds 100% human to me. Great voice artist.
Same, I thought that either she was just very good at what she does or did a bunch of outtakes trying to get that sound.
@SW-fm6up Even if a wasn't a Canadian, I would agree with your comment!
Man, this AI is getting more & more convincing all the time.
Almost makes that Lehto guy look real!
He is Memorex actually ....
@@stevelehto😂😂😂
@@stevelehto Hey, let's not get carried away now! Only so far that I can push my suspension of disbelief.
@@stevelehto He's a goodlooking man.
Canadian Robot Lady is awesome! Love the interesting things she says at the end of your videos Steve.
She's a hottie 😍
I'm a voiceover artist and it was obvious the she is a real voice/person. It is also obvious that she had been in the industry for a very long time because of her cadence (which we call "radio voice") and the subject matter she chooses. There's a wide variety of AI voice options, but that particular cadence is not one of the "delivery" (style) options. And most will opt for a more contemporary style.
Hanging out with a professional DJ in a radio booth was pretty eye-opening when I had the opportunity. "Radio voice" is real. It's an affect. Radio people sound like radio people when they're on the air. In person, when they're off the air, they talk like normal folks. It takes professional voice training or intuition to develop radio voice. That RE20 also has a very particular *sound* and you perform in a way that makes that mic sound best. Modern podcasting condenser mics sound and act quite different, and you vocalize into them differently than if you're using an RE20. I really like that Steve uses an RE20 and knows how to work it: these videos would be quite a bit different if he used a condenser mic, or a non-Electro-Voice dynamic mic.
Those extra, tuned, air channels on the backside of EV's dynamic mics make a pretty big difference. I've got an EV 664, an earlier model in the runup to the RE20, and it doesn't behave like most dynamic mics. It's got, like, the EV "juice" that makes it special. For a long time I used the 664, into a mic preamp, into an RNC 1773 compressor in Super Nice mode, on Mumble/Teamspeak/Discord. "Super Nice" mode is three compressors in series and has super low levels of compression artifacts like pumping.
@@DonOblivious that’s great but I can’t hear the difference in your text? What’s wrong with this message? It always sounds the same no matter what speaker it goes thru
This has to be one of your best videos! That woman has one of the most soothing voices!
Thank you, very kind of you!
@@canadianrobotlady Many a night your voice is the last I hear as I fall asleep watchin Lehto's Lwa
@@canadianrobotlady dear lady a question for you, please? Regarding your parting words of wisdom and humor concluding each episode...are they provided by you or by Steve? Thank you!
Typical AI trying to convince us it's not AI. Speaking of, can anyone verify if Steve is actually real?
He wore I shirt I sent him once. That’s the best I can do.
The jury is still out on that one.
Steve is AI but the one hundred dollar bill is real.
Lol i’m pretty sure Steve is real because he’s flubbed up on words a couple of times and AI doesn’t usually flub up
I don't think AI does a dumb stupid voice.
I thought CRL was your wife! 🤣
Thanks Steve!
P.S. I've heard Heather on outros of other YT channels too!
I never thought she was a robot and always just assumed it was his wife or maybe an employee.
No, no, @jilbertb, alive and well, somewhere in Canada! ☺
@@canadianrobotladyI love that you even have that exact username!
@@canadianrobotlady😆✌️✌️✌️
@@canadianrobotlady I mentioned it in a different comment, but your voice really reminds me of one of the hosts of As It Happens from the 90's or 2000's - my dad used to listen to it religiously, so I heard it a lot too
Retired broadcast engineer here. I was transmitter engineer with downtown studio. A few times the jocks would go across the street from the studio and forget their elevator key to get back into the studio. I had to call the PD who had to drive downtown to let him in. All the while I'm playing music on carts to fill the dead air from the studio. Or the downtown jock fell asleep during a snog, Again I had to play music at the transmitter. Oh what fun in the old days!!!!!!!!
I know nothing about the radio biz as it is or was but it seems like an interesting profession and ditto the engineering aspect. I had a buddy who went to technical school to become a broadcast engineer and he got a job offer right out of tech school but some tragic life events intervened and he demurred and never got back into it.
Oddly, it never occurred to me in my life path though I suppose some of my training kind of set me up for it and I wonder if it was something I ought to have pursued. I was in the Navy at 17, but got transferred to the army and went SF and was a commo sgt amongst the various army MOS I picked up (mostly combat arms, but radio repair, comsec ops and repair, then SF commo before I eventually went to OCS). Looking back, I likely would have a been a reasonable candidate to be running the gear at a radio station, but it never really occurred to me, except via some movies and reading what you wrote, that the stations would be only a skeleton crew, especially in the old days. Your perspective is appreciated.
I remember the local DJ who actually explained why he let the record skip for so long. He went to the restroom and the door locked behind him. He had to find a janitor to let him in. For me, I don't want to do anything live.
I work in radio now... These nightmares still exist.
Difference is, modern automation helps the gear call (ideally) for problems at zero-dark-thirty and can (usually but not always) be corrected remotely.
The panic is still the same though.
Another great Canadian voice. I learned a lot about radio from this interview.
Thank you!
She has a very pleasant voice.
Thanks!
Much better than Sari I think
I worked on the air at a regional AM/FM station for four years in the early eighties. Intros, outros, jingles, commercials and PSAs were on carts, music was on reel to reel and we also spun records. And yes...all these years later I still have those exact same nightmares that you both described. The song is ending and nothing is cued up while tape is spooling off the reel.
Thank You - Heather, We Appreciate Your Collaboration with Steve Lehto, - Always Make's My Day...
We love Canadian Robot Lady ❤️😝 For real though, great work Heather!
You're very kind, thank you so much!
She has such a clear voice. I'm sure some high quality equipment helps, but it's nice to finally hear the real deal. Thx for sharing.
Thank you!
What kind of mic are you using? Is it a ribbon mic or something like an EV or Shure? I played mx from all carts (kinda like Z100) with 8 ITC 99b's. Somehow some of the announcers would manage to not let a cart que up. This was usually with mx carts.
I think Heather has a great voice. I say that as a vocal professional myself. Thanks Steve and Heather.
We appreciate your support, thank you!
@@canadianrobotlady my pleasure.
YAY!!! Canadian Robot Lady!!!
Thank you so much!
I’ve always been impressed with the intro lady’s voice. She always sounded so smooth and made me think I was tuning into a professional show. And Canadian, to boot! 🇨🇦
Oh very smooth, but a definite hint of laughter too, like she's telling a deliciously funny insider joke
I never noticed that your robot had a Canadian accent. Great program. I have to admit that I don't often watch till the end but this one was a sure thing. Thanks!
I've been a part of Lehto's Law everyday, for 5+ years! ☺
Eh?
@@canadianrobotladyAnd we are so grateful for you ❤️
Just as the USA, there isn't just one Canadian accent.
I speak Canadian and I didn’t notice.
Canadian Robot Lady does have the loveliest voice!!!👍
Thank you!
Thanks for reposting this interview, Steve, for those of us who have really only started watching in the last couple of years.
Hearing you two talk about your days in radio brought back a lot of memories. I went to Fanshawe back in 1986 to study Broadcast Journalism. But I ultimately ended up in Print Journalism mainly because of my voice. The year I spent in that industry was one of the most bruising years of my life because I was hearing from people-often without even asking them for their opinion-just how bad they thought my voice my voice sounded. Later, I would do a political TV show and never heard a peep from anyone about the voice. I ended up doing that show for three years and enjoyed it. Either the market had somehow gotten used to raspy, gravely voices by then (this would have been about 2004-2007) or because they could see the “whole package” so to speak, it didn’t matter.
I have kept in touch with some of my former radio colleagues over the years and was always jealous of those who had a great radio voice. I, unfortunately, just wasn’t that lucky. I have/had the skills for journalism down pat, but not the voice.
As an 18-year-old, I let the comments about my voice get to me. Now, I could care less because I have since learned to look at it from an alternative perspective-my voice is just unique. And if a listener or viewer doesn’t like it, I could care less!
I have had people tell me that I sound like a foreigner.
Don't know how many times I have been asked what country that I'm from. The look of shock on their faces when I say this one is always funny.
I am so glad this was put back up. I join the lives often and see her comments. Now there is an actual person connected to the voice.
Yes, I've been part of Lehto's Law for over 5 years now!
Yes, there has always been an actual person connected to that voice.😁
@@canadianrobotladyit is nice to have a personality connected to the voice.
I listen to a LOT of audiobooks, and the narrators are just voices unless you see them in a personal context in some way.
Like RC Bray, until he started having issues with his voice, he used to do the odd live book launch and just chat to the audience.
I did always think you were human, the flow of your words are too natural.
Do you record an audiobooks, and if so are any sci-fi/fantasy and which ones?
Heather's closing comments are what keeps me listening to the end 😅. I never thought she was a robot, because I knew a few radio hosts with similarly excellent diction. I also remember when a lady with a very sultry voice making announcements at a Brazilian (?) airport retired, and frequent travelers Missed her voice, suggesting that they shouldn't have 'altered' it... as if she weren't real.😅
I like the ladies voice.
I almost always wait on the end for the end quote 😅 Steve you have the best canadian robot (lady) ❤
Thank you!
She does have a pleasant voice.
Great radio voice, very easy to listen to
She's fantastic!
Thanks, I appreciate that!
Love this episode. It’s always great to hear people talking about a passion they have and sharing stories.
Thank you!
I love her voice ❤
Thank You so much!
@@canadianrobotlady ❤️
I loved this episode. Later in life I dabbled in DJ work (party and wedding) and community broadcast TV production. Behind the scenes broadcast anecdotes hit so many interests for me. Thanks for this.
I love her voice. Thank you for the interview, and putting a name to the voice.
I enjoyed Oingo Boingo, (sp?) album covers. Was it called "Only a Lad". Also, younger people would probably recognize some movie soundtracks composed by Danny Elfman,(again sp.?). Loverboy is a personal favorite band with many lesser played songs and albums worth listening to. Rush was criminally under appreciated in their early days but thankfully their amazing music has proven to be way ahead of it's time. Thank you Canada and thanks Steve for bringing back this episode.
I'm with you everyday on Steve's channel, thank you!
Oingo Boingo was huge here in LA, played quite often on KROQ. Yes, "Only a Lad" is an awesome song and album. But I think the song he was thinking of is "Dead Man's Party."
I would have to say April Wine and Triumph are up there.
It's nice to hear this interview with a fellow Canadian. As someone who's been friends with folks on radio for years it's nice to hear the radio talk too. Thanks!
Thank you!
Nice to heard from you Heather! Lovin' Every Minute of It!
My favorite radio story: in Cleveland we had the ultra high power WGAR and a little competitor, WIXY.
One day I was driving along and WIXY suddenly became *VeRy LoUd StAtiC...scraping and warbling*.
I turned the volume down and kept driving; after a few minutes it went to dead air.
Another few minutes and finally the jingle! "WIXY 1260!" and into a commercial.
The the DJ comes on and says "Well folks I've checked everything here and it all looks OK... so it must be your radio."
I never thought Heather was a robot. I thought she was Steve's wife. ; )
It was great to hear that. Having done janitorial at a couple radio stations, and my father having been a ham radio operator, I was always interested in their equipment.
I also was a floor guard at a roller skating rink at the time.
I remember talking to a DJ about how people would tell us to get a real job.
I remember one of the guys jetting out of the restroom saying the song's almost over, running from the back of the station to the front. If I remember correctly he made it in time.
I remember a station that would record the previous hours, and play the tape later at night till morning.
I looked at working at a radio station, but kept pulling out the wrong cartridges, as I am somewhat dyslexic.
I was better at facility maintenance.
The not so robot lady sounds great. It was good to hear her talk about what she does. Thanks.
18:22 Our joke was “if you hear ‘Stairway to Heaven,’ someone’s using the lavatory”
She has a beautiful voice. Good choice, Steve!
When I was in college, I had a part time job at an upscale country club manicuring the ice for their curling rink. I had a brass can filled with water and walked along the length of each rink swinging the hose/spout so that it pebbled the ice. The pebbling is critical to the sport, so the curlers would give you a lot of input on how good or not your pebbling was that night. We received a duty meal every night and we could pretty much order what we wanted from the main kitchen, so I was eating well at that time.
Steve you should really have a two way show with her on it some day as she seems like a fantastic lady with a fantastic voice 👍💯
What a fun interview! What an amazingly beautiful voice she has!! Thank you so much Steve and Robot Lady!
Hey you two...being from Cleveland, the Capital of Rock and Roll, the station WMMS "Home of The Buzzard," broke both Rush and Triumph in the US in the late 70s when album rock format was growing. We loved Canada! I highly recommend the band Blue Rodeo from Toronto! I know Robot Lady knows who they are! ;-) Great show/interview folks! PS Loved Captain Canuck comics in the early 80s, as well!
CRL has a fantastic voice, and now I wonder how many of Steve's viewers are actually here for the intro and outro...
Not to worry, I'm here everyday, too! Steve's radio tube videos and piano-tow stories were my early favourites on his channel!
@@canadianrobotlady For me, I always hang on until the end (unless he says there will be an ad at the end) so I can hear Canadian Robot Lady’s pithy sayings.
I'm just trying to figure out how to send her a quote
Yay!!! My favorite Canadian robot lady!🎉
She has a beautiful voice.
This is the second time I have seen, and it is still very entertaining.
Yes, and I'm still here, over 5 years later!
Lots of relatable stories from you jocks from my era of occupying sound-proofed booths. And, not one moment of dead air! You hit on all the important aspects of being a deejay during those awesome days / nights. Thanks for the trip down memory lane. And, by the way, "In A Gadda Da Vida" is still the best song for bathroom breaks. J
Gotta say i could listen to her all day long
This is awesome. Putting Heather's personally behind the voice is a real treat. Thank you.
(🇺🇸⚖️)&(🇨🇦🎙)=🏆
I live 20 miles from the Canadian border and listen to a Victoria BC radio station, The Q 100.3, and she sounds familiar.
I have always known that she is a living person.
Edit: my first record player had 4 speeds 16, 33, 45 and 78. I was never able to find a 16 record. I heard it was for speaking records. You could put 90 minutes of talking on one 12 inch record..
Edit2: I like Curling because it requires thinking and skill not just physical strength. It reminds me more of billards on ice.
I was literally just randomly thinking about it and then this video popped up! I always assumed it was his wife! How people thought it was a robot is funny because I can hear the Midwestern/Central Canadian accent
until I heard it mentioned I thought she was from Northern Minnesota lol
That's "Lovely and Talented Canadian Robot Lady" to you pal!!!!😁
Thank you so much @DanEBoyd - catch up with you in the Livestream Chat soon!
I worked swing shift in LA radio in the late 80s, and we had all our music on cart. I never had that exact dream, but the dream I had was I would start a song, turn around to grab the next cart, and the song that was playing would be done! In the dream I kept grabbing carts, pulling out finished songs, and slapping in new ones.
One thing that I did while wide awake -- I was unlocking my front door at home and just before walking in I looked up to see if the On-Air light was on.
My favorite story, one of the guys was reading a quick weather report, something like, "It'll be 85 in the valleys, 89 inland, 78 at the beaches, good air quality is forecast for the basin, and at our KKLA studios in North Hollywood it's 81 degrees." I stepped up after he turned off the mic and the info sheet was totally blank. He just made up the whole thing.
What a PRO that guy was! Lol
She could do audio books, i would fall asleep too. Not in a bad way. 😂😂
I had assumed that she was a real person, and then in one of your videos I heard you call her the canadian robot lady, and that made me think she was actually just text to speech! Happy to finally find out the history here.
🍁🤖👠 Well-Alive & Accounted For!
She seems lovely you can just tell by the tone of someone's voice how they are as a person
I am old enough to remember AT&T telephone operators. They were all real people, and were specifically trained to sound very similar to each other. This was done so that you didn't have somebody from Boston talking to an operator from the deep south, and neither being able to understand each other!
But it was almost as if you were always talking to the same operator. Spooky, but do-able.
In the Army we had to speak clearly over the radio. Once, on the phone with my bank, I had to convince the person on the other end that I was not a robot because I pronounced a series of numbers in my radio voice.
This brings me back to my days in college radio 1971 through 73, and commercial radio 74 through 77. Those were the days...
25:00 As a Canadian, I'll add to the Canadian rock music that's worth listening to: Devin Townsend, Propagandhi, Billy Talent, Protest the Hero, PUP, Alexisonfire, and Death from Above 1979 are all worth checking out.
Susan Bassi has a fantastic voice as well. She would make a very good voice person as well.
For a kid trying to record music off the radio, the intro and outro were our enemies. I started when I got my hands on a small reel to reel portable. Larry Lujack, Tommie Edwards, John Records Landecker and Bob Sirot controlled my teenage years of listening.
Great interview, thank you.
Her "on air" voice is very similar to Lynne Woodison,,, very soothing and sultry at the same time!!!
I missed this previously. Great vid.
CRL is one of the best moves ever done for Lehto Slaw
I'd have to agree with that! 😉
I always have a side of Lehto Slaw when I get fried fish.
My ears must be failing, I always thought it was "Lettuce Slaw"🤷♂️
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Thank you for your intros and extros, Heather!
As I hear her descriptions of everything, I'm "watching" memory re-runs of Doctor Johnny Fever, scrambling inside the booth... 🥰
Oh yah! The good 'ol days for us both, fer shur!
This was a great recap. Love her voice and that she’s Canadian too. Probably my age even.
Shes got a very high quality microphone, or is in a sound booth. Quality is extremely good on her audio.
I was a volunteer dj for a university station in San Antonio, Texas, in the early 80s and fondly remember the carts, announcements, and all those turntable tricks we had to perform. Especially remember coming back from a short bathroom break to hear the needle skipping on the record, and seeing the telephone ringer light flashing as listeners were calling in to tell me! Thanks for the memories
I've been there, done that for everyone of those things too! Such fond memories!
In college I ran a radio show late night with some college mates of mine was a great time really late at night we got a couple of calls mostly at the start of our show asking for more of the last show lol. We ended up calling ourselves no one's listening because more often than not probably was the case but it was a great time well we did it.
I really enjoy her words after the pod. So many are so profound. ❤ her.
I watch/listen to the end to hear her little nuggets of wisdom or wise cracks. Really enjoy hearing those. TBH, there's been times i ffw over Steve waxing poetic or belaboring some point just to hear her outro.
Thank you for sticking around to the very end, nonetheless! ☺
The extros/outros are beautiful precious nuggets like the wisdom of a fortune cookie
As a Canadian, she sounds like the narrator from "How It's Made" decades ago on Discovery Channel
I didn't narrate that, but I'm here everyday on Lehto's Law!
@@canadianrobotlady
And that is awesome.
@ ahhhh I thought I had you for sure :P
Heather, your voice *sounds* like a smile. Lovely!
Richard Anthony Crispian Francis Prew Hope-Weston, known professionally as Tommy Vance, and famous for the Friday Rock Show in the UK, turned up at a radio station where (the real) Tommy Vance has either failed to turn up or quit. I forget which. They had just made up a whole bunch of "carts" and rather than waste them he just adopted the name and got the job. One I remember from the Friday Rock Show was "TV on the radio!"
I love that this lady does this. She is super cool.
Funny how her Canuck accent kept getting stronger the longer it went on.
We don't have an accent. Americans, what happened to the first T in important?
Love it! Wish we could have seen her at the same time.
What a great episode Steve! Thank you for adding some Canadian content! lol!
im a Canadian from western Canada , God save us , it is insane up here bro , ive been watching you for 4 yrs i think . Great Work
You know i always assumed she was your wife. She does have a nice voice. But her words at the end always make me stop and think of what she means.😂
A few personal notes on Canada. I drove through Canada to Alaska 3 times. First time was early April 2015. I had every single item in my Prius removed as part of a random CBP border search, including all items in the roof-bag. It was hard to tetris everything back into place. My Tom-Tom GPS missed the Alaska Highway just outside Edmonton. Two right lanes on the Yellowknife Hwy exit to the right and become the Alaska Hwy. The Yellowknife continued straight through Jasper Provincial Park. Highway is gated with guards. You have to promise you are only driving and not camping or else they charge a camping fee. Anyway, the unintended detour cost me an extra 250 miles via the Cassiar Hwy. It was 900 miles of rain in BC. I listened to Canadian radio stations as long as possible through BC so that I could make my collection of Rush CD's useful during the two days of driving without radio in northern BC and Yukon. Radio choices were thin. The last AM station I received in BC was the host interviewing the parks and rec director. In a span of 10 minutes, he said, "...get the kids oot and aboot" over 20 times since even HE was tired of indoor life. Mid-April doncha' know? Eh?
Got to film a herd of Buffalo sunning on the road while "Mesopotamia" by the B52's was playing on my CD. Black bears love the grass in the newer portions of highway shoulders, since the trees are removed and plenty of sun grows the grass first. In Yukon, about 50 miles from Whitehorse, two people pulled to the side of the road to film a horse. I laughed at such a silly thing until I realized there was no fence and it was a wild horse.
Second trip "up" was mid-September. I was the only car going to Alaska and only 5 cars leaving AK during the last 500 miles. About 80 miles from the Alaska border, a horse was in the middle of the road. I stopped with the engine running and window open. I got out and figured it's my turn to film a horse. This one had a bell around its neck. Aha. An hour later, I almost hit a caribou. I learned why people hit things. Caribou was jumping from right to left. Hard braking and steering left was a BAD choice. Next time steer INTO the animal and behind it if possible.
Third trip up minivan with 7 aboard and 1,200# trailer. 63mph maximum everywhere. We saw 20+ bears on the highway. Family was sick of me slowing down after the 7th one. "We know what a bear looks like!" Leaving the Whitehorse, YT hotel last, checking out, and prepping the van, family said, "We're going to Tim Horton's. Me driving with a trailer in busy downtown circling Tim Hortons to pick them up. "We're standing outside!" No you're not! There were Tim Hortons just blocks from each other. Yikes.
Family picked radio or their CD but I picked music the last 2 hours of driving to stay awake each day. Rush, of course.
You can tell shes real as robots don't "tsk" when they talk.
... and AI can't laugh, or if it does, probably sounds blood-curdlingly creepy.
Lovely voice!
For cosmic balance...
Steve should do intros and outros for robot lady's podcast.😊
I have always thought she was real... I think she's great and just love her comments at the end of the videos... Love her comments and she has a great voice... Steve I wish we could have seen her on your video... I know she might not want to be on camera but it would be great to see her as well. Her voice is so great....
Thanks kindly!
Thank you for explaining what “carts” are in this discussion.
LOOOVED this video! Great anecdotal shares between you two yutes! ;]]
OMG!!! Steve has been taken over by a time traveling Canadian robot! 🤣
Honestly, I assumed that she was a relative (wife?) or one of his staff (admin/paralegal). I never thought she was a professional voice artist from Canada. 🤯
Just a good friend from a "foreign" country! (Sounds exotic! LoL) 🤣
She sounds great, love her voice.
I believe she's not a robot. Now wondering if maybe Steve is a robot however.
That was a treat. A dabble in triumph. Loverboy is great, didn't know they were Canadian. She does have a good voice.
Thanks so much!
i find it cool that the intro and the post script are done by an actual person
It makes it kinda special for Steve's channel, fer shur!
She seems wicked cool, great episode Steve!
If we don’t see her, does she really exist 😜
Thank you for this Rewind with Heather. Never thought she was a robot. Heather has an absolutely amazing voice.
Ben remains above the Virginia number plate.