ORIGINAL- Emergency Alert System - Tornado Warning for Knoxville, TN (March 2, 2012) Donna can no longer be heard on any new alerts.
It was enhanced in 2003 when Tom was introduced, and was retired in 2016 when VoiceText Paul was released. This voice is still being used today for some EM-Net alerts, but can be hard to find.ĭonna was added along with Craig in 2002, and was mainly used for weather warnings. It was retired, likely due to being clunky. Some stations still use the Craig voice, mostly statewide networks. This is the rarest of the old EAS TTS voices, as it was replaced by Tom early into the 2000s, making some NOAA Craig voice recordings very difficult to find nowadays. It was retired in 2016 and can no longer be heard on any new alerts.Ĭraig was added in 2002 and was later replaced with Tom in 2003. The oldest known source of Paul in an EAS/EBS alert was for a Flash Flood Warning for Phoenix, Arizona in 1996. Old Paul, properly known as Perfect Paul, was the first TTS voice to be used by the National Weather Service for EAS and NWR alerts starting in 1996. NWR Standardized Voices Old Paul (1996–2016) Įmergency Alert System (EAS) Sample- Western MA, 1999-2000 3.4 Matthew (Specific Use, Hawaii, Texas).3.1 Cepstral Series (Canada, Specific Use Northwestern US).2.4 Microsoft David Desktop / Microsoft Zira Desktop (2016-present).
