Actually, The Internet Is Now an Option for AIR

Published at 10:25 on 8 November 2011

I just discovered today that All India Radio news broadcasts actually are available on line. It’s just that AIR has done a very good job of hiding them, by hosting the audio files on a completely separate site from their main site.

It’s actually a good thing for me, as while the diction of their announcers is pretty good, it is still accented English, and when one adds the degradation of a long propagation path to the signal, it turns what was a perfectly intelligible news bulletin into something only partly intelligible.

To see what I mean, compare what I recorded over the air (note that this contains a minute or two of the music that aired prior to the news bulletin) to what I downloaded from their web site.

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