The community radios supported by the Grassroots Radio project are keeping on arranging initiatives to help local populations coping with these uncertain times in a variety of ways. Radio Civic – the Romanian radio operating in the communities of Sfantu Gheorghe and Vârvoru de Jos...
Good news for Grassroots Radio stations in Romania! The Romanian stations have had their first Text-To-Speech (TTS) broadcasts. These include some news stories as well as an automatic weather and wind audio forecast generated and placed on their schedule four times a day. The content of the...
Grassroots Radio keeps on achieving important results, this time in the academic domain with a paper accepted at the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2020. The paper is titled ““Human, All Too Human": NOAA Weather Radio and the Emotional Impact of Synthetic Voices”,...
Grassroots Radio partner CereProc has launched the world’s first commercially available Irish language synthetic voice as part of the Grassroots Radio project. CereProc’s Text-to-Speech technology will be used by a community radio station on Bere Island in south-west Cork to generate spoken content when the station...