[EAS] Best and Worst of New CAP EAS Rules

[Ed Czarnecki]

In the current report and order, text to speech conversion is not created when it occurs at the point of origin, i.e. at NOAA in the Perfect Paul model.  It is however to be prohibited as a result of this order at the point of reception - i.e. on the individual CAP EAS device.  The report provide some details as to their thinking both in the main body a text as well is the footnotes.  Among other reasons they site the potential lack of consistency from manufacturer to manufacturer, and product to product.  They also cite the concerns of various groups, including those who represent people with disabilities, over the intelligibility of text to speech conversion in some cases.

This prohibition of course poses an enormous problem for the IPAWS OPEN model which relies on text to speech conversion.  It is also a challenge for various states systems that mainly on text to speech.

I have been speaking with the federal agencies about this, both as a co-chair of a FCC CSRIC Working group on CAP EAS, and generally.  More as it develops, hopefully soon.

Edward Czarnecki
Senior Director - Strategy, Development. & Regulatory Affairs
Monroe Electronics, Inc.
www.monroe-electronics.com
www.digitalalertsystems.com


-----Original message-----
>From:Alex Hartman <goober at goobe.net>

>I'm confused on the tts conversion ban here. Was there any reason
>given for this? Perfect Paul is good enough for NOAA, why not have tts
>for this as well?

>How else would you get the message out? Real human voice has always
>been the problem (people eating the mic, audio is garbage after half
>dozen relays, etc.) Did they provide an alternative?

>Lots of unanswered things here.

>--
>Alex Hartman

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