[DECtalk] DECtalk On NOAA Weather Radio

[Michael Hansen]

Here is a sample of the "Paul" voice on the National Weather Service's
website.  Anyone have thoughts about what version of DT this is?  The
website says the DECtalk system was introduced in the late 1990's.
http://www.weather.gov/nwr/audio/Paul_SYN.wav

Thanks,
Michael

On 4/10/11, Flint Million <fmillion at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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