[EAS] Test-To-Speech must be allowed - NOW!

[Clay Freinwald]

I highly suggest you contact the folks in Ill.   They have been using the
NWS TTS system for a number of years with their Amber/EAS mission.   For
sure you must 'learn' to write for TTS and NOT write as if you were texting.
But it can be done, in fact, NWS does it all the time in WFO's across the
country.

A lot of things must be learned - This is one of them and should not be
feared.

This whole argument changes tone when you put the advantages of TTS on the
old balance-scale.   Ie, the advantages far outweigh the dis-advantages.   

Think of how many life-saving medicines would never see the light of day (or
save lives) if the criteria for FDA approval was - absolutely no
side-effects?

Clay Freinwald
Washington SECC

-----Original Message-----
From: eas-bounces at radiolists.net [mailto:eas-bounces at radiolists.net] On
Behalf Of Tom Spencer

Not 100% sure I agree...

Just recently, Weather Underground implemented a switch in their forecasting
- and broke the working TTS I had running.  The most serious problems were
caused by the change from typed-out words to abbreviations.  WSW for west
southwest, for example.  The most-humorous renderings though are in the wind
speeds:  "5 minus 15 MPH" (MPH has already been "learned" to be read as
"miles per hour", but how does one render a dash as "to" without also
changing the rendering of temperatures?

" low temperature will be to five F to to fifteen F"?  (low temperature
-5 - -15)??? (Hopefully, they'd input it as lows tonight will be 5 - 15
below F; "F": I can teach out...)

<sigh>  All it would take is for someone to input txt msg frm 2 sav bw 2 ipd
& brk tts 4evr1

SVR TS WRN 4 Mt Olmps ar fm 4:45 2dy rn ltng hi wnds pos 

Will your boxes all properly convert that string, as-is, right now?  And
remember, there's no standard vocabulary for txt msgs beyond a few common
words.

Richard_Rudman wrote:
> As you all know, the FCC's Part 11 Fifth Report and Order that
Text-To-Speech (TTS) EAS messaging will not be allowed at this time saying
in so many words that the technology is not ready yet. The Broadcast Warning
Working Group disagrees. Here's why. Washington State has already
implemented TTS, and it works!

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