[EAS] Serving Multilingual audience

[Ed Czarnecki]

Not sure what you mean by going years without emergency traffic from FEMA.  

IPAWS OPEN carries *tons* of alert messages - just not yet NWS CAP messages.
Just not many messages from FEMA itself (which, I think, is a good thing!)

NOAA has a number of fundamental things to resolve before they can complete
introducing CAP into IPAWS OPEN (message de-duplication, etc.)

But, once that is resolved
 - NOAA would route CAP into IPAWS OPEN
- NWS CAP messages could include multiple info blocks, with different
languages.  NWS could render TTS in Spanish at the source (yes, they have a
Spanish TTS voice).
- Alternatively, CAP XML only (without audio) could be rendered into TTS by
EAS devices that have Spanish TTS capability.

And, as we've previously proposed, EAS devices could poll IPAWS OPEN
automatically upon receipt of an FSK EAS message - that way they could give
preference to the CAP message in case an EAS message comes in first.

-----Original Message-----
From: EAS [mailto:eas-bounces at radiolists.net] On Behalf Of
tpt at sevenrangesradio.com

Dave makes an excellent point about using CAP for multi-lingual alerts from
NOAA.  We can--we will go years without getting any actual emergency traffic
from FEMA.  Some areas have special regional alerting systems where, for
example, a chemical plant will directly notify a regional station that could
generate an EAS alert.  But that leaves 90% or better of our emergency