Eugene David
...The One-Minute Pundit

Thursday, June 17, 2004


BRILLIANT! NOAA's weather-radio stations will broadcast non-weather "emergency alerts." Has anyone heard these stations lately? They use computer-synthesized speech; the one around here has three different "personalities" (two male, one female) who speak with vaguely Scandinavian inflections and mispronounce every tenth word (Reading, following a word that ends with a T, becomes "Treading"). Listen for more than twenty seconds at a time and you WILL go nuts. If people laugh now at NOAA, think what will happen when it becomes America's babysitter.

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