First I started laughing because the audio processing on this TTS voice in an emergency alert made it have a bassline, then the voice gave up. This was for a missing child alert for someone named Xzavieanna, and Festival Kal (the voice of DASDEC EAS encoder/decoder units) didn’t even try to pronounce it and just spelled it out.
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4 responses to “There Are So Many Things Wrong Here”
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Well there’s an EAS unit called the Gorman Redlich CAPDEC-1 which literally just runs Windows 7 or 10 and uses SAPI voices, so that could do it for some alerts. Basically, there’s two methods of getting alerts, over radio or over the internet through something called IPAWS/CAP. IPAWS can either include a WAV file to be played, or it’ll have the unit synthecise the text. DASDEC units (common in television and some radio stations) use Festival Kal as the default voice, but can be upgraded to Cepstral Allison/David/William if you pay (my privately owned one uses Kal.) SAGE units (common in radio) use the Loquendo Dave voice, and Viavi’s EASyCAP (common in cable systems) use PicoTTS.
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Nice, there should be one with Microsoft David or Decktalk on it. Sorry, Microsoft David is my favorite voice. I want all my applyences such as a washing machine to have Microsoft David on it.
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The voice is Festival/Festivox Kal. Its the default voice in Digital Alert Systems brand Emergency Alert System encoder/decoder units.
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Well, that’s funny, but sad. What Tts voice was that?
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