NAB attorneys told officials from the FCC’s Media and Consumer...
NAB attorneys told officials from the FCC’s Media and Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureaus that existing text-to-speech technology is problematic for creating audio versions of on-screen emergency information that can be heard by the blind and sight impaired, an ex…
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parte notice said (http://xrl.us/bodd2x). On-screen emergency information crawls may originate from a variety of sources at a station, such as the newsroom, master control, weather center or its emergency alert system equipment, the notice said. “While text-to-speech technology and software is available, there is currently no methodology for interfacing the output of the graphics equipment” that creates the on-screen crawl to the text-to-speech equipment, it said. “Thus, we urge the commission to refrain from requiring or precluding any technology for audio transcription,” it said.