A Design System for Radio Broadcasting Application with News

Agent

I K. G. Sudiartha, P. M. Prihatini and I Made Purbhawa

Department of Electrical Engineering, Politeknik Negeri Bali, Badung-Bali, Indonesia

Keywords: Broadcasting, Text to Speech (TTS), Management, Information.

Abstract: Along with the development of technology and information, social media develops through mobile device

services. However, radio broadcasting media is still needed considering the needs of users in rural areas and

areas with very minimal communication network coverage. In addition, there is also a need for vehicle drivers

or machine operators who cannot access mobile equipment while carrying out activities but can still listen to

both entertainment and information via broadcast radio. The role of radio broadcasting is very important to

collect information from information agencies in the community and serve the delivery of information and

entertainment for the community. Broadcasting radio operators need technical personnel as well as operators

who manage music/songs and convey information orally. The operator's role is quite heavy when viewed from

the time setting for 24 hours in one day. A support service that can assist in gathering information from agents

in the community, managing broadcasting materials and conveying information in the form of voice is

urgently needed. For that it can be realized with a computer-based application that can receive data in the

form of text, convert text into sound and manage broadcasting both news and entertainment in the form of

music/songs. This application is expected to overcome problems in collecting information, delivering

information and entertainment services in the broadcasting world for 24 hours a day.

1 INTRODUCTION

Radio broadcasting has been used for a long time to

convey information and as a means of entertainment

for the community.

In line with the development of technology,

especially computers, developing applications that

can support the delivery of information.

Problems occur when collecting information

sources that are relatively far away from broadcasting

radio stations. In addition, it takes 24 hours to manage

the time and broadcaster staff to serve the delivery of

information through radio stations. For this reason, a

broadcasting support application was made by

utilizing computer technology.

There are several studies that have been done on

data agents that are connected to web-based

applications but have not been applied to radio

broadcasting. In other studies, the use of web-based

services has also been applied to the development of

radio broadcasting by broadcasting voice recordings

from broadcasters.

A system is needed to collect data from news

agencies in text form and convert it into sound before

being transmitted through broadcasting stations.

The system designed is to create a WEB-based

application by implementing a news agent system.

This news agent will send news to the web service in

the form of text. The application will translate the

information in the form of text into sound and manage

the presentation of music and information in the form

of sound before being distributed to radio

transmitters. This process work automatic in operator

function application. In addition to its role in

delivering information, this application is also

expected to assist in the preparation of reports.

2 RELATED WORK

Pelin Angin and Bharat Bhargava, researched by An

Agent-based Optimization Framework for Mobile-

Cloud Computing. Research that connects agent

computers with server computers in the cloud as real-

time data processing. The mobile-cloud computing

paradigm, which involves collaboration between

mobile and cloud resources.

A similar study was also conducted by I.E.

Foukarakis, A.I. Kostaridis, C.G. Biniaris, D.I.

Sudiartha, I., Prihatini, P. and Purbhawa, I.

A Design System for Radio Broadcasting Application with News Agent.

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Kaklamani, and I.S. Venieris which implements

multiple client computers with a web service through

a server computer.

The research has implemented several agent

computers and is connected to a web-based

application but the application has not been carried

out on radio broadcasting.

In a study by Berlin Chen, Hsin-min Wang, and

Lin-shan Lee conducted a research entitled Retrieval

Of Mandarin Broadcast News Using Spoken Queries.

News broadcasting is done by taking from a database

that stores voice data.

On the other hand, the use of text-to-speech

converters has developed with applications in various

fields, such as the use of reading electronic mail,

reading text on a computer display, reading story

scripts. But the use of a text to speech converter has

not been applied to broadcast radio news in real-time

from the database.

Many researches on the application of text to

voice have been carried out, as written by Ayushi

Trivedi, Navya Pant, Pinal Shah, Simran Sonik and

Supriya Agrawal in a journal entitled Speech to text

and text to speech recognition systems-A review.

This study discusses the conversion from text to

speech and vice versa from speech to text (speech

recognition).

Based on the research, in this study developed a

news collection system using agents that send

information to web-based applications. News in text

form is automatically converted to voice and then set

up to be broadcast via radio broadcasting unit.

3 METHODOLOGY

SDLC is a methodology regarding software

development, this model is known as the waterfall

model or software life cycle. The principal stages of

the model is illustrated in Figure 1

(Ian Sommerville,

2010)

Figure 1: The Software Life cycle.

Five fundamental development activities:

1. Requirements analysis and definition.

Consultation with system users is carried out to

obtain designs according to objectives such as

management of radio broadcasting,

management of music and information,

management of information sources and data

related to radio broadcasting.

2. System and software design The System design

includes hardware and software design and

relationships. System architecture that supports

radio broadcasting software performance.

3. Implementation and unit testing. Software

design is realized as a set of programs or

program units.

4. Integration and system testing The Application

(individual program units or programs) are

tested as a complete system. In addition to

testing with localhost simulations, testing is also

carried out with hosting as applied to radio

broadcasting.

5. Operation and maintenance

The system is installed and put into practical

use.

The advantages of the waterfall model are that

documentation is produced at each phase and that it

fits with other engineering process models.

4 DESIGN SYSTEM

4.1 Design User and Data Flow

This radio broadcasting support system application

involves several actors who are involved in it. Each

actor has a role in this system. From the survey

conducted, this application involved 3 main actors.

Figure 2: User and Data Flow Diagram.

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The first actor is a news agent as a member of a

radio broadcasting reporter group, the second is a

station operator that operate station service

application via browser, and the third is the

management of a radio broadcasting company.

A news agent must register before join and

distribute news to database. The information consist

of date, news in data text format and agent identity.

Agents can send news in the form of text to the

database by logging in as an agent.

Operator is the person in charge of operating the

system at a broadcasting radio station. The main task

is to manage music and make sure the computer is

connected to the radio transmitter. Audio output from

computer is transmitted via a radio transmitter.

Administrator can create report for all activity

around radio broadcasting company, manage data

music and manage user account in radio broadcasting

support application.

Application User and Data flow can show in

figure 2. Data from the agent's browser to the

broadcasting radio service application in the form of

text data and store in database.

The operator manages music playback in the form

of text data and receives audio data to be forwarded

to the radio transmitter.

All management of user data, music data and

report data is handled by the Administrator.

4.2 Architecture System

System architecture describes equipment or units and

equipment relationships in broadcast radio service

applications.

Figure 3: Radio Broadcasting Device Architecture.

This application involves equipment in the form

of a computer supported by network facilities and

internet services. This radio broadcasting support

service application is placed in the cloud (hosting) as

a web-based software service. This application

provides services for collecting and storing

information from agents, processing text data into

sound, management of music and news in voice form.

4.3 Use Case Diagram System

This section contains an explanation of who and what

can be done in the system. There are three actors in

this application, namely the Admin as an

administrative manager with the main activity of

Create Report, Data Management and User

Management.

The second actor is the Operator, which is the

person in charge of running the application at the

broadcasting radio station. The Operator activity is

Operation Management and Personal Data

Registration.

The third actor is the Agent, whose activity is

Sending News and Personal Data Registration. They

find information and use web application to sending

data from their own device to database in cloud. News

Agent serves as a collector of information scattered in

several places so that it can cover the broadcasting

area. Use Case Diagram System can be seen in Figure

Figure 4: Use Case Diagram System.

4.4 Information Management

Architecture

This section contains the mechanism for collecting

information in the community through scattered news

agents and sending news through web-based digital

services.

Information in the form of text and stored in the

database is converted into news in the form of sound

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and then managed and combined with music before

being transmitted through broadcast radio

transmitters. An explanation of the application unit

and information can be seen in Figure 5.

Figure 5: Information Management Architecture.

All data processing is carried out on a web-based

application and news storage from the agent browser is in

the form of text.

4.5 Result and Discussion

The design is implemented using the PHP and Java

Script programming languages with layout settings

using CSS.

Functional testing of the application includes

sending data through the agent browser, setting music

on the operator's browser, converting news in form of

text to speech from the database automatically by the

system and administrator browser can making

company reports. Tests were also carried out on the

suitability of the music volume response to news

broadcasting.

From the test results show in Figure 6, the

response of the application to the data entered into the

database can run well. News queue listings appear on

the monitor of the operator's browser. According to

the looping time setting, the data update will repeat

every 10 seconds to retrieve new queue data from the

database. the news queue is broadcast one by one in

the order of the queue. Simultaneously with the

delivery of news, updates are made to the status of the

news in the database so that the news that has been

broadcast is deleted from the news queue list.

Figure 6: Test Results.

This application can be used to speed up and

facilitate the collection of information from news

agents and overcome broadcaster fatigue in reading

information over a long period of time.

5 CONCLUSIONS

It can be concluded that the designed application is

expected to improve information delivery services in

terms of time and collection of information sources.

This application can also overcome the problems

of management of operational time and broadcasters

in carrying out their duties at broadcasting radio

stations.

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