In late 2000, The NWS embarked on a Voice Improvement Processor (VIP) program, implementing newer text-to-speech voices, nicknamed "Donna" and "Craig", in 2002. The "Donna" voice was improved, "Craig" was replaced by "Tom", and a Spanish voice, "Javier", was added at a few sites.īy the end of 2016, the NWS will have replaced CRS with the Broadcast Message Handler (BMH) at all sites. Among other functional upgrades, BMH has replaced “Donna” and “Tom” with an improved “Paul” voice. For those NWS offices that use Spanish programming, “Javier” has been replaced with a much improved “Violetta” voice.Ĭompare the previous NWR voices to the new “Violetta” and “Paul” voices in the audio samples below.
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