With past experience in classical radio I'm available to contribute suggestions if asked.
Thanks Carl.
I come into the topics late I know!
Free sites have the artificial voices and can type what you want to say and they will say it for you but I like hearing my own voice on the air. Been told I have a good voice for radio.
Mark
I spend a lot of time talking on the air, and the artificial voices might give my imaginary radio characters a true voice of their own.
What I've been doing is changing my voice and talking to versions of myself, but the synthetic voices might be another way of doing it.
This hobby was already fun, now it's getting to be a party.
Read a couple of paragraphs down...
Wdcx's "couple paragraphs down"..
".. It clarified that permissible content for TIS includes weather alerts regarding difficult or hazardous conditions, plus information on a host of other emergency and non-emergency traffic and travel-related events and locations, along with any communications related directly to the imminent safety of life or property. Also permissible are certain non-travel related emergency information, including Amber Alerts and Silver Alerts, and information on the availability of 511 service (travel conditions by telephone).
The FCC rejected a call to allow any non-commercial content, and specifically disallowed non-emergency, non-travel information, such as routine weather information, emergency-preparedness messages, and terrorist threat levels. Reasoning that this information is widely available through other sources, the FCC concluded that broadcasting it over TIS would dilute the effectiveness of TIS in assisting travelers with geographically focused emergency information..."
Strange.
So last night I clicked on your link that
you posted in your first post on this
thread.
Man, I was boppin around the kitchen
cooking hamburgers and trying to do
jazz scatting along with some of those
songs you were running. I'm not joking -
this is really true.
I got your link on my smartphone and it
sounded really really good. So I got on
another telephone and called a good friend
who is another Part 15er and told him to
"tune you in."
Some really really good stuff.
your automated voice sounds quite
good, I think. The only thing that
confused me was, is the voice announcing
the previous song that was just played or
the next song... I think I got that figured
out. The voice also says what year the song
came out. That is outstanding!
I tried to bring up your station this morning but
the link didn't work. I'm figuring you are working
on it.
Really fun. I've got to get more antique radios out
and transmit your program through them. That will
take a while. I moved and most of my radios aren't
here.
Anyway, really fun!
So that's it for me, Brooce in West Hartford, CT.
Where every Part 15 experiment has a new name
I guess. The FM has been running as "WLP." Haa!
LP for low power, but it should be WNW for nanowatts.
The SS Tran is running as DOG RADIO studio 4, now.
Just another name. (The DOGS are here in this new location.)
Great stuff.
Oh, yeah - my son is a jazz musician, so he occaisionally
came into the kitchen and was digging it too.
Very best wishes,
What I'm I called now??
Oh yeah, DOG RADIO STUDIO 4 on 1620 and
WLP on 90.9.
A new place and new stations.
Brooce
Hang tight. Big wind storm here, power out everywhere. Will be back up when it's on.
Power is on!
Artisan Radio is back up.
We're still getting power blips, so the station is up and down until these go away. Right now, up again.
Haven't listened tonight, but have listened to it yesterday and the day before for a couple hours I think..
Thanks for all the comments on the new format of Artisan Radio.
Apparently Jazz radio stations are a rarity these days - there are 62 in the U.S. (as of 2015, I believe) out of 13,500. And I suspect a lot of those are smooth jazz and/or modern jazz.
I know there are a few vintage jazz Internet stations, or at least, there were, prior to the latest copyright fiasco. The fact that there are NO public domain musical recordings in the U.S., so everyone needs to pay licensing fees, probably has affected a lot of them. Again, all the music I play is in the public domain in Canada (all musical recordings published >50 years prior to 2014, and all song authors passed away >50 years prior to 2015).
Contrast the number of jazz stations to the number of Album Rock stations (> 650), and that's supposed to be a format that will save radio.
I'm just happy to have Artisan Radio be somewhat unique, with good music (even if it isn't to everyone's tastes) - but then, that's what Part 15 broadcasting is supposed to be about.