Category: Terrible TTS
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So I Guess Neospeech Kate Works At An ATM Now?
FSU replaced the ATM in the Falcon center at some point, the old one used Microsoft Zira as its TTS, this one uses pre-recorded clips of NeoSpeech Kate stored at very low quallity. The low bit depth and bit crusher are just how this sounds. I happened to use an ATM 200 miles away in…
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Speechify Tom Test Microsoft Speech Server 2004, CRS EAS)
YouTUbe user Max Baykowski modified the image of Microsoft Speech Server 2004 to include NVDA, meaning that us blind folk now have access to as close to the real Tom used at the NWS from around 2002-2016 as anybody else has. This was my first test.
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Forecast Improvements on ERN/KNA
We’ve now got Tom reading our forecasts. This is an absolute clusterfuck of a setup, it’s so damn scuffed. So Voxin doesn’t have a text2wav type utility, so what I have to have this do is create a virtual output device, record that for two minutes in another terminal, read the forecast, after two minutes…
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There Are So Many Things Wrong Here
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…
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NOAA Weather Radio Gets Yeeted into a Tornado
This was during a PDS Tornado Warninng, the second most extreme type of tornado warning in the united states.
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DECtalk Harry Gets Stuck in a HollyAnne HU961
This unit records at a 5KHz sample rate. Also, the version of Harry was compiled with the National Weather Service speech dictionaries
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Your License Has Expired: Emergency Alert System TTS Fail
On May 16, 2025, National Weather Service Green Bay Wisconsin’s NOAA Weather Radio transmitters had this happen, and there were severe thunderstorms and tornadoes that day. This made it to air. Audio is from my internet radio station, GWES ERN/KNA, wich has a broadcast Emergency Alert System encoder unit and receives alerts from the whole…