[EAS] Text To Speech issues

[Gary Timm]

Dave,
You are correct that when the ECIG I.G. was drafted, the ECIG members had hopes that the EAS Header Code derived info at the beginning of the converted text would go away, and thus provided for the eventuality of that happening in the I.G.  But the FCC did not change that rule, as you correctly quoted.
 
On your other point, unfortunately FEMA did not accept the concept of EASText outlined in the ECIG I.G., so that cannot be used unless FEMA changes its mind on that issue.
 
Gary

--- On Thu, 4/11/13, Dave Turnmire <eassbelist at cableone.net> wrote:

>From: Dave Turnmire <eassbelist at cableone.net>

>When Text-to-speech was discussed awhile back, I had thought the only issue was how well the TTS engines pronounced certain names, etc.  But a few months ago our state has switched to CAP based alerts as its primary distribution method.  Most of our tests have attached audio, so until recently I wasn't paying much attention to the TTS issue.  Then we had some tests sent without the attached audio
>and....Yuck!