[EAS] Why we need Text-To-Speech

[Sean Donelan]

On Wed, 14 Mar 2012, Richard_Rudman wrote:
> That said, we readily admit that TTS is still not perfect. We believe 
> that the quest for "perfect" should not stand in the way of a CAP IPAWS 
> OPEN feature that is certainly, even with inevitable pronunciation 
> issues, better than a noisy and barely intelligible audio file.
>
> Posting this does demonstrate why we need TTS in the Rules.

A much better approach.

Technical fixes work for technical problems.  Previous comments 
were framing text-to-speech as a solution for a people problem. 
People problems are rarely fixed with technical solutions.

As you point out, people should not expect text to speech to be the 
perfect solution either.  People will likely find all sorts of new
ways to still mess up.  And what to do when the Internet is down.