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Temperature reporter

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Radio Bob

Back in the day somebody made a computer that could be hooked into your automation so that when requested a artificial voice would give the time and temperature maybe even the forecast. Does anybody remember this, who made it and what it was called and does anybody have one?
 
Back in the 90s, I used one of these from Sine Systems called TTI for "Temperature-Time". It was very clear that it was synthesized voice. It sounded better on the air than some contemporary products, but much worse than the voice assistants we have now. But IMO it kind of emphasized that we weren't live -- obviously if you were live you wouldn't have this automation reading the temperature.

It was operated by a closure command on the automation log.

It looks like they still sell this model. Sine Systems, Inc. | Model TTI-2
 
You might tune in www.kgaf.net and listen online around the top and bottom of the hour. This is a fully automated weather forecast/time/temperature system inserted into automation. I understand it took a bunch of finetuning to eliminate some things. For example, if a tornado watch, it would list every county and every word of the NWS release. I sort of think the automated voice sounds a bit like Alexa.
 
bturner1 said:
I sort of think the automated voice sounds a bit like Alexa.
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It may very well be the same. The woman who voiced the original Siri, for instance (Susan Bennett) also voiced the "Current local time" announcements that are heard in a few US airports, and has done other voice work for various companies. Same may be true for Nina Rolle - who voiced Alexa according to a few sources.
 
bturner1 said:
You might tune in www.kgaf.net and listen online around the top and bottom of the hour. This is a fully automated weather forecast/time/temperature system inserted into automation. I understand it took a bunch of finetuning to eliminate some things. For example, if a tornado watch, it would list every county and every word of the NWS release. I sort of think the automated voice sounds a bit like Alexa.
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I just caught it. It sounds pretty good. Where does it come from?
 
Gainesville, Texas: 16,000 population; 43,000 in the county.

I know the owner said it had something to do with a Weather provider a few decades back who ended up retiring to the Caribbean. I don't know the name of the program, however. I do know it took many months of tweaking to get it the way it is now.
 
Time-Temp thing
 
Radio Bob said:
Back in the day somebody made a computer that could be hooked into your automation so that when requested a artificial voice would give the time and temperature maybe even the forecast. Does anybody remember this, who made it and what it was called and does anybody have one?
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I have one, and I think I'll pull it out and have our morning talent use it as a joke.
 
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