[EAS] Should digital audio files be prohibited in CAP?

[Clay Freinwald]

BEAUTIFULLY SAID !!!!!!

Amen... fellow curmudgeon 

Clay Freinwald

Bill Ruck wrote - 

I think we are all missing the point.

The purpose of EAS / CAP / IPAWS / CMAS is to get an emergency message to as
much of the public as fast as possible.

Having a post production house voice an emergency message with a Neumann
U-87 and 96 kHz sampling 24 bit words that gets delivered three days later
does not help anybody.

In my view of the future, the Incident Commander pulls up a template on
his/her CAD / MDT / Personal Digital Wireless Device, fills in the blanks
and touches SEND.  Seconds later all media gets the message and the public
gets the information.  And the IC can go back to solving whatever Bad Thing
happened.

That is, in my warped view, the beauty of CAP.  It is a simple standard text
based protocol that can be quickly transmitted over almost any system.  And
quickly and automatically converted to any delivery system.

If the public receiving media is text based they see the text.  If the
public receiving media is sound based they get a Text To Speech version.  It
might sound artificial but if the message is "Duck and cover" and they save
their skin then so be it.

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