WxVoice

WxVoice 1.5 by Thunderhead Technologies is a specialized communications utility that turns any Windows 7, 8.1 or 10 computer equipped with a voice-capable modem into an automated telephone weather announcer. Designed as an add-on to the WxSolution meteorological suite, the program retrieves current and historical weather data already collected by its parent package, converts the information into natural-sounding speech through the operating system’s built-in Text-to-Speech engine, and delivers a spoken report whenever a caller dials in. Because it synthesizes narration in real time rather than stringing together pre-recorded numbers and phrases, WxVoice produces a noticeably smoother, more conversational dialogue that can cover complex variables such as barometric trends, heat index, wind chill and daily rainfall totals without the choppy cadence typical of earlier voice-response systems. Typical deployments include private airstrips, marinas, agricultural co-ops, emergency-management offices and remote research stations—anywhere stakeholders need round-the-clock access to hyper-local conditions but lack Internet connectivity or smart-device coverage. The lightweight service runs unattended on a standard desktop or rack-mounted PC, answers after a configurable number of rings, speaks the requested summary, and then terminates or loops back to a main menu according to touch-tone commands. Configuration is handled through the same WxSolution interface used for data logging, so existing users can add telephone access simply by enabling the WxVoice module and selecting which observations to vocalize. Only one public version, 1.5, has been released to date, and it remains the current offering. The software is available for free on get.nero.com, with downloads provided via trusted Windows package sources such as winget, always delivering the latest version and supporting batch installation of multiple applications.

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