Thanks Guy. I'm looking mor for a unit that will speak the radio frequency, mode, menus ect. This would be quite a help to blind operators. These tasks don't require a computer. Kenwood achieve it with a small plugin board.
73 Scott ZL1CHM / N0HO Auckland New Zealand Sent from my iPhone On 15/11/2015, at 3:05 AM, Guy Olinger K2AV <[email protected]> wrote: > Not that I've ever heard. There were requests on the original feature lists > for the digital voice recorder back at the beginning of the K3. The voice > recorder was available very early. > > Usually the user wants to use his own voice for synthesized speech, a rather > complex task usually done by logging software running on a PC. > > This would be a PC that has the software for forming the letter, number and > special message files needed for automatic contest speech in a contest with > serial numbers, etc. The logging program then assembles those files into > sequential speech using directory and file names specified by the program via > a sound card. > > These tasks require developed software, which will have been developed for > the two common hosts and operating systems. > > That would make the request suspiciously like inserting a mini PC into the > K3. Interesting idea. Would worry about all the misc RF noise generated by a > PC. And the heat. Still interesting ignoring all the practical issues to > solve. > > If transportability was in mind and I had to have it tomorrow, I'd get a > Surface Pro 3, load all the requisite software and files, and pack it in the > same case as the K3. > > 73, Guy K2AV > > On Friday, November 13, 2015, Scott Gillen ZL1CHM <[email protected]> wrote: >> I'm wondering if Elecraft produces or has considered producing a speech >> synthesiser board for any of there radios? >> >> 73 >> Scott >> ZL1CHM / N0HO >> Auckland New Zealand >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Elecraft mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:[email protected] >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> Message delivered to [email protected] > > > -- > Sent via Gmail Mobile on my iPhone ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
