[EAS] Why we need Text-To-Speech

[Alex Hartman]

Harold,

I haven't played around with the TTS stuff in the Sage yet as MN is
still putzing with putting a CAP server online. But once the lexicon
is customized, do i have to wait for an alert to find out if the
phonetic spelling was good enough?

IE, How do i test the lexicon/TTS engine's output once i've entered a
custom word? Is there an app somewhere that allows me to "test" it?

If not, why not? ;)

--
Alex Hartman

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Harold Price
<hprice at sagealertingsystems.com> wrote:
> At 04:59 PM 3/19/2012, Alex Hartman wrote:
>
>>But i'm sure that 1 year old box can be updated to allow user
>>lexicons, right Harold? ;)
>
> Yes.  I know you are kidding, but here's as good a place as any to say:
>
> Click Cap Settings on the ENDEC's home page, then retrieve or restore
> lexicon.  You'd add things like:
> "9-1-1" = "nine one one"
> "911" = "nine one one"
>
> There is a second internal lexicon that Sage sets, where global
> corrections are placed, such as "endec" = "\fE-n-d-`E-kh"
>
> This is not to say that each and every radio station is responsible
> for setting these. The lexicon files should be developed at the
> country or state level, and made available for downloading.  Exactly
> how this gets done, and who will do it will be different for each area.
>
> Harold
>
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