NOAA Weather Radio Broadcast Voice

[kb2vxa]

"The sensual voice..."

Well no wonder, Perfect Paula couldn't pronounce her own name, then Donna came along. Meh, not sexy enough for the male audience she became... Misty Dawn.

Then in San Diego, El Paso and San Juan they have Javier with a jota because they can't pronounce Xavier. Coochie coochie? (;->)

 

[collin19]

So who is the voice of my clip?

 

[Dude111]

Unless you are listening during live severe weather coverage, it's a computer.

Yes which is a disgrace..... THEY HAVE BECOME TO LAZY TO DO IT THEMSELVES and its really pathetic listening to TO BE QUITE HONEST!!

 

[Scannerhead1983]

NOAA voice

the station transmitter in my area used to have the voice that sounds like arnold schwarzenegger.... This is NOAA Weather Radio, I am Arnold and a tornado is comming GET DOOOOOWN.

 

[Dude111]

Yes the DEEP VOICE one..... I still hear that on a few of them round the country giving the time,etc.... (I do like that one)

 

[datainmotion]

Yes which is a disgrace..... THEY HAVE BECOME TO LAZY TO DO IT THEMSELVES and its really pathetic listening to TO BE QUITE HONEST!!

Um - Huh?

 

[CrabbyMilton]

I really don't know what's disgraceful about it. You don't tune in NOAA for personality or good looks like you do for TV weather you tune in to get the weather without the foolishness that often accompanies TV weather though they generally do a good job most of the time. The automation was explained that the info gets out faster than it would take for someone to record it while reading text.

 

[joehawth]

I heard the NOAA man's voice and SIRI are dating....

 

[Dude111]

I really don't know what's disgraceful about it........

Well its just another example of how lazy humans have gotton.... FINDING THE EASIEST/CHEAPEST WAY TO DO SOMETHING..... I think it was better whena live ppl did it.... (It meant more)

 

[KB7MIB]

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; U; en-US) Gecko/20081217 Vision-Browser/8.1 301x200 LG VN530)

I can hear 2 different transmitters from my home. Phoenix (162.550) uses a male voice. Globe (162.425) uses a female voice.

 

[CrabbyMilton]

I won't argue about lazy people because you're right. Technolgy is wonderful but lazy people don't need help from it to apply their sloth like condition.

 

[bamx2]

Well its just another example of how lazy humans have gotton.... FINDING THE EASIEST/CHEAPEST WAY TO DO SOMETHING..... I think it was better whena live ppl did it.... (It meant more)

Because it doesn't free a forecaster up for more important things... Like forecasting.


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[K4ASJ]

The link that showed the voices are none of the ones my radio is using. I recorded a clip for you guys to hear so you can tell me who it is.


NOAA Voice.wma

My radio is a Midland 74-200

The voice you are referring to is what the NWS calls "Tom"

Here is a link that compares to yours Noaa Weather Radio KJY-80 Male voice (TOM) severe thunderstorm warning - YouTube

 

[KB1UAM]

where i am here on good ole cape cod, i have all 3 voices of donna paul and tom i think it is" This is noaa weather radio staion KECK73 operating on 162.55 megahertz" when KECK is supposed to be KEC73

 

[oft]

I believe that they use AT&T Labs Natural Voices® for text to speech processing.

AT&T Labs Text-to-Speech: Home

AT&T Labs Natural Voices® Text-to-Speech Demo

These voices are not used at NOAA. In fact, they sound like the voices used when you purchase (or use the brief free version to make YouTube clips) the XTRANORMAL cartoon generation software.

 

[Dude111]

The voice you are referring to is what the NWS calls "Tom"

Yuk,not the one i prefer! (I like the DEEP VOICE they have that sadly isnt used much anymore )

 

[kb2vxa]

"The automation was explained that the info gets out faster than it would take for someone to record it while reading text."

Er, yes and no. System upgrades over the years have greatly reduced time lag but what you hear in the broadcasts is a text reader. That's why all the goofiness with earlier software you've experienced yourself with them in your PC if you experimented with them. Weather statements and bulletins are still composed by someone at a keyboard (same thing you read on the web site) and until the NWS uses intelligent robots they still will be.

Now the question; will they finally get the forecast right? While I'm still chuckling here's my favorite robot reading the strangest looking text I ever wrote to get the pronunciation right.

 

[Dude111]

Here is one station that STILL USES THE LOW VOICE I LIKE!

http://audioplayer.wunderground.com/ComPilot/Ramsey.mp3

He says the time and what station your listening to..........


Anyone have any others that still have him?

 

[mmckenna]

Yes which is a disgrace..... THEY HAVE BECOME TO LAZY TO DO IT THEMSELVES and its really pathetic listening to TO BE QUITE HONEST!!

There is actually a good reason they do this!
By using a standard voice that is automated, you don't inject any dialect, accent or any other variables into the broadcast. That makes it easier to understand as listeners grow accustomed to the voice. When you are out at sea there is a LOT of background noise, and trying to hear these voices over that noise can be difficult. By using the standardized voice, it makes it a bit easier.

NOAA also doesn't have to worry about who is reading the weather, if they have an accent, dialect, etc, and run into issues with affirmative action and who they hire. As long as they can type in English, it's all good.

It likely allows them to handle many transmitters out of one common site.

I don't think it's lazy. I think it was a good idea.

 

[Dude111]

Hehe i think its easier to understand a human honestly!

Ah well.......