Electronic Announcer

The Electronic Announcer is a hardware and software solution designed to provide automated public address announcements passengers and non-passengers within airport terminals and surrounding areas.

The solution consists of both software modules (including modules developed by JetXBit) and hardware components:

• JetXBit Airport Resources Information System — used to:
  • create and edit announcement zone profiles;
  • create and edit message templates and manage announcement schedules.
• VoiceInformer — an application that builds the announcement queue, converts text templates into audio announcements using a Text-to-Speech (TTS) engine, and outputs them to the selected audio device.
• VoiceControl — an application for monitoring the announcement queue associated with a selected announcement zone profile.
• Web Service — an intermediary service that connects the database with the client applications used for passenger announcements.
• Text-to-Speech (TTS) Engine — a third-party software component or service used to convert text into synthesized speech.

The solution also includes the following hardware components:

• Audio Station — an IBM-compatible computer equipped with one or more sound cards (audio channels), with the VoiceInformer client installed and configured.
• Emergency Voice Alarm and Public Address System — the airport's public announcement system used to broadcast announcements and capable of connecting external audio sources (such as an Audio Station).

To deploy the Electronic Announcer, complete the following steps:

• Configure announcement zone profiles according to the required number of announcement zones.
• Create message templates and assign them to the appropriate profiles.
• Deploy and configure the Web Service.
• Assemble and configure the required number of Audio Stations based on the number of announcement zones and available sound cards (audio channels):
  • install the Text-to-Speech (TTS) Engine;
  • install and configure VoiceInformer.
• Integrate the Audio Stations with the airport's Emergency Voice Alarm and Public Address System.