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

[Sean Donelan]

On Sun, 26 Feb 2012, Clay Freinwald wrote:
> Hope this answers you questions - I am confident that you too will come to
> appreciate all the work that has been done to move EAS forward and that
> includes Text to Speech.    A lot of people have put a lot of work into this
> technique, it is our sincere hope that the FCC will see fit to re-consider
> their position.

I appreciate the work people have done. I also encourage them to consider 
with an open mind whatever the issue the FCC believes exist, and not 
create strawman to crusade against instead.  I understand the state of 
washington CAP software designers made particular choices. But even though
they put in a lot work on a particular way they thought things should 
work, they are still willing to consider other approaches.

Originator Text to Speech (any point before distribution to 
broadcasters, such as on the CAP submission server, not just on the EOC 
worker's PC) creation of a digital audio file is allowed NOW!

CAP messages with both text and an associated digital audio file created 
before distribution, including by text to speech software, is allowed NOW!

Broadcasters (cable, etc) can display the text from the CAP message and 
download and play the associated CAP digital audio file NOW!

Until further review, broadcasters (cable, etc) can not use text to speech 
to create the audio file on the fly.

Question for the FCC: What should a CAP box do with a CAP message if it 
can't retrieve the associated digital audio file and is not allowed to
generate its own text to speech audio on the fly?