[EAS] Why we need Text-To-Speech

[Skinner, Jim]

Question for ECIG:

It would be nice if all the EAS companies could use the same
Text-to-Speech software.  Then 100 local versions around the country
could be programmed up by people appointed by the LECCs and SECCs.  Even
stations and cable owned and operated by far away companies could load
the "Local Dialect" version of TTS and away we go!

I know that sounds like a pipe dream, but why not talk about that as a
goal?

  -- 
Jim Skinner CPBE CBNT
Neb SECC Chair

-----Original Message-----
Dave Turnmire wrote:
This HUMAN doesn't know how to pronounce the first or last example of
above... and I'm afraid to try pronouncing the second...

On 3/18/2012 10:25 PM, Clay Freinwald wrote:
> Hi Sean -
>
> I was just playing with one of the Text to Speech sites on line 
> ...Just for drill, I asked it to pronounce some local (to this area) 
> names
>
> PUYALLUP (City just east of Tacoma)  - It said it perfectly.
>
> STRAIT OF JUAN DE FUCA (Body of water between US and Vancouver Island,
> Canada)  - It said it perfectly
>
> SEQUIM  (Town on the south side of the Strait of Juan de Fuca) - It
called
> it - SEE-QUIM.    So I changed it to Squim and it did fine.   This is
a
> classic case of know how to write for a Text Reader.
>
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