Hello Dane RDS is very widely used here; my own in-car audio system supports it. My system is both analogue and digital.
RDS is also used to adjust the frequency if, when you're listening to a national station over here, for instance, you move out of range of a transmitter. The tuner automatically tunes to the next transmitter in the geographical sequence. But I personally have never encountered a radio which can speak the RDS data. I doubt it would be possible using static speech because there are too many variations which appear on the display. Gordon used to have the Pure Digital radio that spoke using static speech and to be honest it was pretty basic. But I gather that Pure have stopped making talking radios and I have never encountered another manufacturer making them; and yes, I have looked. Gordon isn't interested in FM radio much any more to be honest. Everything we listen too is on digital and the quality is far superior. Lynne On 2 Aug 2011, at 06:43, Dane Trethowan wrote: Hi! I'm reading about the Radio data system <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Data_System> and I have a question, has any manufacturer of radio ever made a set which can read this data and speak it through synthesised or static speech? I'm only interested in the RDS because my most recent purchase of a Sangean tabletop clock radio uses the RDS to set the time automatically, pressing a button on the front displays traffic information, pressing it again displays Station Id and so it goes on. RDS works on the FM band and - according to the article - is widely used in the U.K. and North America, not sure how wide the use of the RDS is in Australia but I do know that several stations here must use it or else the clock of the radio wouldn't set itself <smile>. -- Dane Trethowan >From Melton Victoria Australia skype callto:grtdane12 MSN: [email protected] _______________________________________________ The Techno-Chat E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free To modify your subscription options, please visit for forum's dedicated web pages located at http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/techno-chat You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Techno-Chat group since the 12th of April 2010, at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/techno-chat/index.html _______________________________________________ The Techno-Chat E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free To modify your subscription options, please visit for forum's dedicated web pages located at http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/techno-chat You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Techno-Chat group since the 12th of April 2010, at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/techno-chat/index.html
