[aprssig] "Blind" APRS

[Steve Noskowicz]

Joel
  Sure, I know, but how do they say numbers?  Working with the blind ham made me sensitive to things I wouldn't normally be aware of.  7150 is either "seven one five zero" or  "Seven thousand one hundred fifty"   
In current radios it's "seven point one five zero zero zero zero" ..Huh?

We don't talk that way.  The Double talk has a digit mode and a "number mode".  I put it in that number mode, but break up the command strings so it talks more goodly-better. (;-).
14.253  "Fourteen point two fifty three"

Then there's  14.253.55  "fourteen point two fifty three dot fifty five"  I thought using different words for the two decimals would improve intelligibility as well.

--
You know that sea of entropy we were going to drown in?  Well, upon closer examination, it turned out to be ignorance.  S. Noskowicz 1987
73, Steve, K9DCI


--- On Fri, 11/7/08, Joel Maslak <jmaslak-aprs at antelope.net> wrote:

> From: Joel Maslak <jmaslak-aprs at antelope.net>
> Subject: Re: [aprssig] "Blind" APRS
> To: "TAPR APRS Mailing List" <aprssig at tapr.org>
> Date: Friday, November 7, 2008, 10:57 PM
> On Nov 7, 2008, at 9:45 PM, Steve Noskowicz wrote:
> 
> >  I wrote VB code to speak frequencies much more
> naturally.   e.g.  
> > 7150 is "seventy one fifty"  IIR 146.94 is
> "One forty six, nine  
> > four". It's not 100% human spoken, but pretty
> good.  It parces the  
> > digits right to left and based on which digits are
> present, builds  
> > speech-command strings producing the more natural
> speech patterns.
> >    I'd give it to anyone wanting it.  The VBA
> algorithm can be  
> > translated to the language of your choice. It sends
> what I'm pretty  
> > sure are standardized speech synthesizer commands.  I
> developed it  
> > using the Double Talk module.
> >   It's currently in an Excel spreadsheet macro
> which sends  
> > frequency commands to a 706 and speech commands to the
> speech synth  
> > on a single serial port with a Wye (the CI-V commands
> and Double  
> > talk commands are orthogonal, i.e. non overlapping).
> 
> 
> Any modern Windows or Mac machine (XP, OS X) has fairly
> decent speech  
> synthesizer engines built in now, and you can purchase
> commercial  
> ones that sound amazing.  Programming is quite simple - 10
> lines of  
> code can speak through the sound card on these machines. 
> It'd be  
> fairly easy to rig that up to a radio or anything else...
> 
> 
> 
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