[EAS] FCC Seeks Comment on Multilingual EAS

[suzanne at mab.org]

Barry has a point.  Well, several, actually.  If you read deeply into the Notice, it's less about EAS alerts and more about the follow-on information -- where are the shelters, road closures, etc.  That requires a "live" native speaker or linguist in the station.  We could figure out how to automate EAS alerts with text to speech or other technologies, but I'm not sure there's a way to automate long-form programming.  And, yes, it's all political.
 
Suzanne Goucher
Maine Association of Broadcasters

-----Original Message-----
From: "Barry Mishkind" <barry at oldradio.com>

Kevin wrote:
Back to the real thread. Are there any long range plans to go all-digital with IPAWS/CAP/EAS? Much like the DTV transition has changed TV, why not do an all D-EAS transition? Dream with me... with D-EAS adding another PID (or two, or three, or 65,535) to a stream is not that big of a deal. A D-EAS decoder could be user-selectable to whatever language the user wants

At 03:01 PM 3/12/2014, Tim Stoffel wrote:
>This was already tried with PBS. It was abandoned a couple years after it started.

As engineers, we can devise many automated solutions.
The *real* solution is for stations catering to other
languages have someone on call to do more than
just the alert ... but to inform.

Like I said earlier, this is relatively easy today,
given the wide variety of IP and other access.

OK ... I didn't want to say this earlier - this
whole thing is political ... as political as that
alleged newsroom survey two weeks ago.

This should never get into the Rules ... it will
create havoc.

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