<div>Does it spell words that are in all caps? for example... is AI4PX spelled a i 4 p x or is it pronounced ayyyyy four picks. </div>
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<div>On a humorous note... my wife gets really irritated listening to my "frogger beep" d700 esp in an active area, I can well imagine this device reading off all packets would make a road trip with her that much more enjoyable. Kinda like the time I set the overspeed alarm on the GPS to 72mph when she was driving. ;-)
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/8/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Robert Bruninga</b> <<a href="mailto:bruninga@usna.edu">bruninga@usna.edu</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">The ANDE and RAFT satellites add APRS Packet-to-VOICE synthesis<br>by simply connecting a speech module to the serial port of the
<br>TNC and making one addition to convert the HEADER of a packet<br>into "CALLSIGN SAYS..." and then speaks the rest of the packet.<br><br>We all know how hard it is to set up a VOICE repeater out in the<br>field, compared to how easy it is to set up a DIGIpeater. AND a
<br>DIGI can go multiple hops.<br><br>Imagine plopping down 2 coffee-can digi's on hilltops and then<br>being able to use APRS to send VOICE to an RF area 3 links away.<br>Trivial done.<br><br>Yes, the applications are small, but it is a nice thing to have
<br>in your tool kit. Well, the reason we have not pushed this is<br>that the module we were using cost $199 and hams just wont pay<br>that much. But I just found out that PARALLAX sells a complete<br>module for only $59.
<br><br><a href="http://www.parallax.com/detail.asp?product_id=30006">http://www.parallax.com/detail.asp?product_id=30006</a><br><br>This is much more like it.<br><br>Remember, that since 1995, APRS has defined a test-to-speech
<br>protocol. If any string in any APRS packet begins with a %,<br>then the client (if it has a voice) is supposed to speak that<br>part of the packet.<br><br>The D700's will SPEAK such packets, (but it has a very very
<br>limited vocabulary, and few people have the speech module. But<br>APRSdos had no voice, but would sound out the words in CW.<br>WinAPRS would speak it. I assume that other clints will also<br>speak too.<br><br>But with the addition of a $59 moudle to any TNC, you can now
<br>have voice in a remote box without having to have a client.<br><br>Anyway, we need to think about how we do this. A pic could do<br>to old TNC's what the KPC-3+ in ANDE and RAFT do. That is,<br>convert the header to speech. Etc...
<br><br>Anyone?<br><br>Bob, WB4APR<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>aprssig mailing list<br><a href="mailto:aprssig@lists.tapr.org">aprssig@lists.tapr.org</a><br><a href="https://lists.tapr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aprssig">
https://lists.tapr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aprssig</a><br><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>In theory there is no difference between practice and theory.