[EAS] TTS on WEA messages
Dave Turnmire
eassbelist at gmail.com
Tue Jan 27 17:39:20 CST 2026
I have a Samsung Galaxy S24 phone, and it (like my previous S9)
generates a text-to-speech translation of an incoming WEA message...
often badly because the originator didn't use "text to speech friendly"
text. Which leads me to two questions:
1/ Am I correct in my understanding that the WEA system itself doesn't
support including an audio message (like we do routinely in Idaho for
EAS alerts via IPAWS)?
2/ Do phones other than the Samsung Galaxy phones support TTS? Is this
a wide spread "feature"? IMHO, it is a desirable feature for people
driving their car when the alert comes in. Obviously not a good time
be looking at your screen... and too many phones make it cumbersome if
not impossible (absent a Google Search) to find the messages later. But
it is only a useful feature if originators take care to generate TTS
friendly text.
Dave
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