[EAS] No such thing as too much compression

[Bill Ruck]

Clay,

I miss one staff guy at our local NWS office that did his reports in 
a perfect Jack Nicholson voice.

NWS now uses pre-recorded words and is much more intelligible.

But CAP will be a free-form text to speech application and that, even 
with today's systems, is fraught with complications.

If the voice announcements were in Hawaiian it would be easy to 
convert text to voice.  But Ahmericun has all sorts of pronunciation 
quirks that can not be turned into any look up table.

On the other hand, the audio that I have heard delivered by the CA 
state radio system is absolutely unintelligible.  Weird sounding 
voice is a major improvement.

Bill Ruck
Curmudgeon
San Francisco

PS to Clay: We're in the same general age range.  Cranky.

At 09:48 PM 11/27/2011, you wrote:
>Perfect Paul was a very early generation Text Reader that sounded like Tron.
>
>Bill, great progress has been made with these systems, witness how NWR
>sounds today.
>
>Clay
>(Are you older than me?)