Middlesex County TRS Coded Message

[rr60]

”This will lead the world to more sound and fury. These thistles bend in a high wind”.

Over and over and over every 10 seconds on the TRS. TG 64504 UID 1001014.

Of course Google has the answer. Used to test for audio quality.

“The phrases, called “Harvard sentences,” are phonetically balanced, in that they contain the full range of sounds used in everyday speech, making them perfect to test how we hear in loud places or over long distances. You can find a list of 720 sentences, and a tool you can use to create "poetry" with them, below”.

Perhaps being used to test coverage in Edison.Always on and does not need to be fed.😂

 

[chrismol1]

It's a speech intelligibility rhyme test sentence

 

[Steve162]

Perhaps the Kobayashi Maru has set sail for the promised land...

 

[kd2pm]

We used dozens of them when we put our system online. Harvard sentences are boring but do work. Most digital systems done measure just by bit error but by PESQ which is a more accurate measurement of voice quality (PESQ = Perceptual Evaluation of Speech Quality). Take the recordings from over the air and compare them to the original and the algorithms will tell you our MOS or Mean Opinion Score. Our system scored 2.1 which seems low but it was actually very readable.

 

[mdsxfire]

When I first heard that over and over I let my kids hear it a few times and they thought it was some cryptic message for end of times, I told them it was probably a phonetic test and then good old google confirmed it.