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continue the WeatherLink database.
Enter Your Station Directory, the location of the
WeatherLink executable file, and select if you want to
automatically generate NOAA monthly and yearly
summary reports within WeatherLink.
Enter a scheduled time to automate the process.
Figure 35 – WeatherLink Settings
6.33 WeatherVoice
Turn any PC into a Weather Report Telephone Call Center
with Ambient’s WeatherVoice Plug-in.
Anyone can keep up to date on your local weather,
anywhere. Advertise your services, keep a watchful eye on
your home, cabin or business, indoors and out, with a
simple phone line and voice modem.
Ambient makes this possible with Virtual Weather
Station’s Voice Generation System
Virtual Weather Station’s WeatherVoice is a text to speech
converter. WeatherVoice is compatible with most text -to-
speech voices.
These text files can be automatically updated, inserting
real-time weather conditions from your weather station, or
even forecasts and warnings from the National Weather
Service.
With WeatherVoice, you can:
Use Virtual Weather Station’s File Tags to insert live
weather conditions from your weather station or your local
METAR station into your outgoing answering message
Download from the Internet and insert any text file into the
outgoing answering message to provide weather forecasts
and warnings
Use spoken audio files as background sounds on your
website
Combine with a third party PC Auto Call Center to provide
a complete PC-based phone answering system. Keep up to
date on your local weather, advertise your service, and stay
connected to the weather!
6.33.1 What you Need to Get Started
You need the following to create a sophisticated Weather
Reporting Call Center:
A personal weather station, or Internet connection to over
7,000 METAR weather stations around the world
Ambient’s Virtual Weather Station Base, Pro or Internet
Edition
Ambient’s WeatherVoice Plug-in
A Voice Modem. Most modems provide Voice/Data/Fax
A third party Call Center Software. We recommend
Advanced Call Center:
http://www.voicecallcentral.com/advancedcallcenter.ht
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6.33.2 Configuring WeatherVoice
WeatherFlash converts text files with “tags” into actual
weather data, and then converts these files into wav files,
which can be played back on your computer or voice
modem. “File Tags” can also be inserted into the text file.
An example text file is as follows:
Figure 36 - WeatherVoice Set-up
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