[EAS] Best and Worst of New CAP EAS Rules

[Harold Price]

IPAWS OPEN does not rely on text to speech conversion.  It has the 
ability to include a pointer to an audio file.  IPAWS OPEN is a 
relay, and will take whatever it is given.

While there are advantages to a text-only message (reduced delivery 
bandwidth, less reliance on EOCs to voice the audio), there are many 
advantages for supplying a voice file - correct local name 
pronunciation, proper handling of abbreviations, more natural pacing 
and emphasis.

Sure, part of the live audio problem is eating the mic.  That would 
not be so bad if you weren't receiving a 3rd or 4th generation copy 
of a guy eating the mic.  With CAP, everyone gets a first generation 
copy.  Is that better or worse than a robotic overload mispronouncing 
town and street names?

Perfect Paul is a single vendor solution, and is the produce of a 
great deal of fine tuning.  Lets not assume that TTS is always 
better, or that IPAWS OPEN somehow requires TTS.  It isn't, and doesn't.

Harold

At 10:31 AM 1/17/2012, Ed Czarnecki wrote:

>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.