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Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Whose Voice is That on Weather Radio?

"The National Weather Service embarked on a Voice Improvement Processor (VIP) program in late 2000, and implemented newer text-to-speech voices nationwide in 2002, nicknamed 'Donna' and 'Craig'. A year later, further updates were made. The 'Donna' voice was improved, 'Craig' was replaced by 'Tom', and a Spanish voice 'Javier' was added at a few sites. All of the VIP voices have been produced using the Speechify text-to-speech system."

http://usgovinfo.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.nws.noaa.gov/nwr/newvoice.htm

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