New voice for NOAA Weather Radio

The NOAA Weather Radio system inside National Weather Service Offices has been nearly the same for 15 years. The technology has become very outdated, requiring a replacement to the system. All National Weather Service Offices over the course of this summer are upgrading to a system called Broadcast Message Handler (or BMH) and is incorporated within AWIPS, which has many benefits:

Much more condensed in terms of hardware, saving both space and in heat production
More stability
A new voice which brings in technological advances that have been made to Text-to-Speech technology
Future upgrades can be made more quickly

We welcome any feedback, which can be sent via e-mail to w-arx.webmaster@noaa.gov