>From: "Rob Cookson" <rob_cookson_at_mindspring.com> > > What would also improve the situation would be for NOAA to go >back > > to using humans to make the announcements. That synthesized voice is >very > > primitive, technically, and often unintelligible. I seem to remember reading a decade or more ago that when the US Air Force did testing of verbal alarms for military aircraft (Pull up! Pull up! etc.), they found the voice that got the fastest reaction from task-saturated pilots was a slightly sultry woman's voice. Of course, that was in the bad old days, when nearly all military pilots were men... Philip Torrens N49°16' W123°06' *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Mar 09 2000 - 13:58:58 PST
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