Neil Williams wrote:

True. If all that is announced is "Pigeon Street", or "Next Stop
Pigeon Street" at most, it won't be disruptive - it IMO isn't on German
buses where such automatic announcements are fitted (if a driver does
it he typically only reads the stop name). If the announcement is "The
next bus stop will be Pigeon Street, please make sure you take all your
belongings with you and mind the doors" it will grate.

I've never found it a problem on German buses, in fact, quite the
reverse, it's really helpful. They're limited to just saying "Next
stop: Gerhard Hauptmann Strasse", or, if it's a U-Bahn/S-Bahn station
"Next stop: Barmbek, interchange with U2, U3 and S1". Some of the
central ones also have the information in English, as well as "exit
here for Alster boat trips" or "exit here for town hall" (the only
problem being the use of the word 'exit'. Interestingly, the tourist
information is generally not mentioned in the German, and the
interchange not mentioned in the English.

What did grate this weekend on my visit to Hamburg, was that they've
got a really irritating kid to do the announcements for some reason.