[DECtalk] DECtalk On NOAA Weather Radio

[Jayson Smith]

Hi,

Our local NOAA station seems to be using some version of Scansoft Tom or 
something that sounds a lot like him. It's using something else for time 
announcements and station ID announcements. It used to use this something 
else all the time, years ago. It might be a version of DECtalk, but if it 
is, it sounds just weird, almost like there's something wrong with its 
speech. I don't quite know how else to put it.

On a similar subject, several years ago I was listening to a local airport 
information message on the aviation band. They were definitely using 
DECtalk, I think version 5. They had things fixed so every time the digit 9 
was spoken, it was changed to niner.
Jayson

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Hansen" <amtk62 at gmail.com>
To: "DECtalk Discussions" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2011 6:24 PM
Subject: [DECtalk] DECtalk On NOAA Weather Radio


> Hi all,
>
> I was wondering if any of the DECtalk historians out there could give
> me some info about the version(s) of the software that were/are used
> on the National Weather Service's NOAA Weather Radio?  It was some of
> these implimentations that got me interested in DECtalk.  Many NOAA
> Weather Radio stations have completely phased out the DECtalk synth in
> favor of RealSpeak Solo, but DECtalk can still be heard on some
> stations.
> I listened to NOAA Weather Radio back in the days of full-time
> DECtalk, and I noticed differences in speech and configuration.  For
> example, some stations used the Harry voice, while others used Paul.
> Some versions of Paul had a wider inflection/pitch range than others,
> and some pronounced things (like numbers) slightly differently.
> What I am wondering is...does anyone know roughly what versions of
> DECtalk were used in these implimentations?  I'll try to make some
> recordings and pass them along to indicate what I am talking about
> with the pronunciation changes.
>
> Thanks,
> Michael
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