Category: Terrible TTS

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…

This was during a PDS Tornado Warninng, the second most extreme type of tornado warning in the united states.

This unit records at a 5KHz sample rate. Also, the version of Harry was compiled with the National Weather Service speech dictionaries

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…