NOAA Weather Radio gets new voice

From: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society | Date: November 1, 2001| Author: Anonymous | Copyright information

NOAA Weather Radio, the nation's automated radio weather warning system, will soon have a new voice. The National Weather Service (NWS), an agency of NOAA, evaluated five voices and reviewed 19,000 Internet survey comments from the public in the effort to find the new voice.

NOAA has awarded Siemens Information and Communication Network of Boca Raton, Florida, a $633,615 contract for the voice improvement. The weather service will begin implementation of the new voice's text-to-speech...

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