[EAS] What is the solution for the TTS problem?

[Marlin Jackson]

I'd much rather have the TTS than the hum, hiss, too low, too hot recorded audio. Most of the counties in Washington and Idaho are Indian names. Even though the TTS may butcher a county name we would know where the alert is for. Anyone that lives here has heard miss pronunciations from visitors and people new to the area. Most likely we'd laugh it then off duck and cover.  The Sage units some of us received from the State already had the files installed to correctly pronounce the most common mistakes.
 
2 Cents,

 
Marlin Jackson, CSTE
Chairman LECC
 
Assistant Chief Engineer,
RF Systems
The KXLY Broadcast Group
500 W Boone
Spokane, WA 99201
 
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>>> Tom Taggart <tpt at literock93r.com> 1/19/2012 12:22 PM >>>
I think that you will find that 911 centers and other
emergency centers will be increasingly staffed by people
with basic  computer and "keyboarding"  skills who could
easily be trained to use EAS origination software that
relied on composing and sending text alerts.

More easily than they could be trained to record an MP3
audio file.  And, of course, the text to speech software on
the other end will have much more consistency message to
message than recorded audio messages. Even if "Silicon
Sally" insists on mispronouncing "Monticello."

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