[DECtalk] DECtalk On NOAA Weather Radio

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Our local NOAA station is using DT Harry for station ID. The local
forecasts are coming in from AT&T Crystal, and the normal
announcements are either Scansoft Tom or AT&T Mike, it's a bit hard to
tell because it's quite weak reception.

I can tell they are not relying on the internal TTS algorithms but
instead are working with the phonemes directly - I imagine this is so
that the city names can all be pronounced properly. They are likely
using the phone-arpa-on mode that we use to make DT sing, which gives
it the unique pitching.


On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 7:25 PM, Michael Hansen <amtk62 at gmail.com> wrote:
> The Phoenix NOAA Weather Radio reminded me of DECtalk version
> 4.6...just the way it said numbers.
>
> On 4/10/11, Hart Larry <chime at hubert-humphrey.com> wrote:
>> Well, I much preferred DecTalk to the strange speech they are running now.
>> I
>> know the average listener may think its almost human, but the way
>> words-and-phrases jerk, just doesn't sound right at all.
>> I understand NOAA had sales of Weather Radios drop while we were enjoying
>> DecTalk, but DecTalk was much more accurate.
>> Yes, while our LA 162.55 ran a loer pitch, I think Phoenix had much more
>> inflection.  I wish I could get my DecTalk USB to sound like that in Linux
>> with
>> Speakup.
>> Also, yes many ATIS recordings on an aircraft band or over the phone are
>> still
>> running DecTalk, but its the bouring lo pitch.
>> Hart
>>
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