Re: [digitalradio] Speech-to-Text for the Handicapped
All, I am setting up my mobile rig again(icom 706/High Sierra Screwdriver/Ameritron amp). I wonder if you could run ALE400 or other digital modes from the mobile using speech recognition software??? Hal WD4MDA - Original Message - From: Tony d...@optonline.net To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 6:41 PM Subject: [digitalradio] Speech-to-Text for the Handicapped All, Andy brought up the digital mode / text-to-speech idea recently and a thought came to mind that this could help the handicapped. I'm not sure if speech-to-text programs can transfer text to another application right out of the box, but assuming they did, there would still be the need for voice commands to control the program. Seems a second sound card may be needed as well; VAC might help. Skip Teller created Digitalk for the blind (thanks Skip) and Patrick wrote an interface for it (thank you Patrick) so the programs can talk. Andy's speech-to-text idea would complete the package. It's easy to suggest something like this while standing on the shoulders of experts like Patrick and Skip; I can only imagine what it takes to write the code. Just a thought. Tony -K2MO http://www.obriensweb.com/digispotter.html Chat, Skeds, and spots all in one (resize to suit)Yahoo! Groups Links http://www.obriensweb.com/digispotter.html Chat, Skeds, and spots all in one (resize to suit)Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digitalradio/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digitalradio/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: digitalradio-dig...@yahoogroups.com digitalradio-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: digitalradio-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [digitalradio] Speech-to-Text for the Handicapped
On 5/21/2010 3:28 AM, Hal Stang wrote: All, I am setting up my mobile rig again(icom 706/High Sierra Screwdriver/Ameritron amp). I wonder if you could run ALE400 or other digital modes from the mobile using speech recognition software??? Hal WD4MDA Hal, Skip Teller can answer your questions - see the thread on this subject. Tony -K2MO PS: Let us know when you're on the road. - Original Message - From: Tonyd...@optonline.net To:digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 6:41 PM Subject: [digitalradio] Speech-to-Text for the Handicapped All, Andy brought up the digital mode / text-to-speech idea recently and a thought came to mind that this could help the handicapped. I'm not sure if speech-to-text programs can transfer text to another application right out of the box, but assuming they did, there would still be the need for voice commands to control the program. Seems a second sound card may be needed as well; VAC might help. Skip Teller created Digitalk for the blind (thanks Skip) and Patrick wrote an interface for it (thank you Patrick) so the programs can talk. Andy's speech-to-text idea would complete the package. It's easy to suggest something like this while standing on the shoulders of experts like Patrick and Skip; I can only imagine what it takes to write the code. Just a thought. Tony -K2MO http://www.obriensweb.com/digispotter.html Chat, Skeds, and spots all in one (resize to suit)Yahoo! Groups Links http://www.obriensweb.com/digispotter.html Chat, Skeds, and spots all in one (resize to suit)Yahoo! Groups Links __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 5133 (20100520) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com http://www.obriensweb.com/digispotter.html Chat, Skeds, and spots all in one (resize to suit)Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digitalradio/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digitalradio/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: digitalradio-dig...@yahoogroups.com digitalradio-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: digitalradio-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [digitalradio] Speech-to-Text for the Handicapped
On 5/21/2010 4:28 AM, Hal Stang wrote: Thanks Tony I appreciate. And will let you know when I am on the Road LOL. I worked mobile CW for years. LOL. 73, thanks for your time. Hal WD4MDA Me too Hal! I used to take along a Bulldog mini paddle http://www.amateurradioproducts.com/ and use it with the Icom 706. The built-in keyer works well once you tweak it a bit. Lots of fun, but a good size bump in the road can really scramble your sending for a moment, especially with the Econo-box I drove hi. Hope to work you ALE-400 /M. That would be a first for me! Tony -K2MO - Original Message - From: Tonyd...@optonline.net To:digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 3:53 AM Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Speech-to-Text for the Handicapped On 5/21/2010 3:28 AM, Hal Stang wrote: All, I am setting up my mobile rig again(icom 706/High Sierra Screwdriver/Ameritron amp). I wonder if you could run ALE400 or other digital modes from the mobile using speech recognition software??? Hal WD4MDA Hal, Skip Teller can answer your questions - see the thread on this subject. Tony -K2MO PS: Let us know when you're on the road. - Original Message - From: Tonyd...@optonline.net To:digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 6:41 PM Subject: [digitalradio] Speech-to-Text for the Handicapped All, Andy brought up the digital mode / text-to-speech idea recently and a thought came to mind that this could help the handicapped. I'm not sure if speech-to-text programs can transfer text to another application right out of the box, but assuming they did, there would still be the need for voice commands to control the program. Seems a second sound card may be needed as well; VAC might help. Skip Teller created Digitalk for the blind (thanks Skip) and Patrick wrote an interface for it (thank you Patrick) so the programs can talk. Andy's speech-to-text idea would complete the package. It's easy to suggest something like this while standing on the shoulders of experts like Patrick and Skip; I can only imagine what it takes to write the code. Just a thought. Tony -K2MO http://www.obriensweb.com/digispotter.html Chat, Skeds, and spots all in one (resize to suit)Yahoo! Groups Links http://www.obriensweb.com/digispotter.html Chat, Skeds, and spots all in one (resize to suit)Yahoo! Groups Links __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 5133 (20100520) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com http://www.obriensweb.com/digispotter.html Chat, Skeds, and spots all in one (resize to suit)Yahoo! Groups Links http://www.obriensweb.com/digispotter.html Chat, Skeds, and spots all in one (resize to suit)Yahoo! Groups Links __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 5133 (20100520) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com http://www.obriensweb.com/digispotter.html Chat, Skeds, and spots all in one (resize to suit)Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digitalradio/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digitalradio/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: digitalradio-dig...@yahoogroups.com digitalradio-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: digitalradio-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[digitalradio] Competitors vie to provide earthquake-proof radios for emcomm
The Wireless Innovation Forum has announced the winners of its competition to find a radio technology suitable for use following a 15 gigaton earthquake. Skipping over the huge loss of life and general destruction wreaked by a magnitude 10 earthquake - more than 10 times the size of the Indian Ocean quake of 2004 - the Forum asked teams to develop a radio system that could provide connectivity to emergency services descending on the area from around the world. The University of Calgary team landed First Place and Best Design, pocketing $4,000 and $2,000 respectively. The Tokyo Institute of Technology got second place, worth $3,000, while the Worcester Polytechnic Institute won Best Presentation and Best Report, worth $2,000 and $1,000 respectively. Each prize comes with a scholarship to attend the next Wireless Innovation Forum Conference. An earthquake rating 10 on the Richter scale would go way beyond national borders (probably removing a few in the process), so the Wireless Innovation Forum envisioned complete destruction of the local wireless infrastructure and increasing radio congestion as agencies from different countries arrived on the scene with demands for ever more bandwidth. We can't help thinking that in the event of a magnitude 10 quake (five times larger than the biggest ever seen by humans) international aid might not be forthcoming in sufficient volume to congest the airwaves, but perhaps we're too cynical. Competing teams of students from around the world were whittled down to six in April last year, based on written submissions. The six were then tasked with creating a dynamic database to coordinate the spectrum uses of at least 20 separate emergency service groups in an apocalyptic urban setting. The database was required to sense users, and deduce transmitter locations as well the as signalling systems used, identifying available frequencies for allocation to new arrivals and working out the potential for interference based on both the frequencies and the manner in which they are used. The teams created both hardware and software, then modelled how effective their solutions would be using Matlab, which by happy coincidence sponsored the competition. The winners were marked not only on how effective their solution was, but also the extent to which the solutions leverage working group efforts of the SDR Forum. Which is what this kind of competition is really about: demonstrating that Software Defined Radio can achieve remarkable things in extreme circumstances, in the hope that people will start using it in more mundane applications. ®
[digitalradio] Reporting from Hell
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[digitalradio] Mobile CW
Hal/Tony, I wonder if the serious CW mobile operators might invent some CW sending capability from there steering wheels ? Since one's hands are on the sterring wheel most of the time some thumb sending might work. Andy On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 5:00 AM, Tony d...@optonline.net wrote: On 5/21/2010 4:28 AM, Hal Stang wrote: Thanks Tony I appreciate. And will let you know when I am on the Road LOL. I worked mobile CW for years. LOL. 73, thanks for your time. Hal WD4MDA Me too Hal! I used to take along a Bulldog mini paddle http://www.amateurradioproducts.com/ and use it with the Icom 706. The built-in keyer works well once you tweak it a bit. Lots of fun, but a good size bump in the road can really scramble your sending for a moment, especially with the Econo-box I drove hi. Hope to work you ALE-400 /M. That would be a first for me! Tony -K2MO - Original Message - From: Tonyd...@optonline.net To:digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 3:53 AM Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Speech-to-Text for the Handicapped On 5/21/2010 3:28 AM, Hal Stang wrote: All, I am setting up my mobile rig again(icom 706/High Sierra Screwdriver/Ameritron amp). I wonder if you could run ALE400 or other digital modes from the mobile using speech recognition software??? Hal WD4MDA Hal, Skip Teller can answer your questions - see the thread on this subject. Tony -K2MO PS: Let us know when you're on the road. - Original Message - From: Tonyd...@optonline.net To:digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 6:41 PM Subject: [digitalradio] Speech-to-Text for the Handicapped All, Andy brought up the digital mode / text-to-speech idea recently and a thought came to mind that this could help the handicapped. I'm not sure if speech-to-text programs can transfer text to another application right out of the box, but assuming they did, there would still be the need for voice commands to control the program. Seems a second sound card may be needed as well; VAC might help. Skip Teller created Digitalk for the blind (thanks Skip) and Patrick wrote an interface for it (thank you Patrick) so the programs can talk. Andy's speech-to-text idea would complete the package. It's easy to suggest something like this while standing on the shoulders of experts like Patrick and Skip; I can only imagine what it takes to write the code. Just a thought. Tony -K2MO
Re: [digitalradio] Speech-to-Text for the Handicapped
Tony, I was going to mention the bumps. HI HI. I ran a MFJ Iambic Keyer ( a group of us in the Brandon club started using them). I had it mounted on a thick piece of plexiglass next to my leg on a long floor/hump mounted stem. When you hit the bumps, all bets where off ,you just went with the flow. I used to send the cw correction, then cw just hit bump in road hi hi the receiving hams got a big kick out of it. Hope to work you. hal WD4MDA - Original Message - From: Tony d...@optonline.net To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 5:00 AM Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Speech-to-Text for the Handicapped On 5/21/2010 4:28 AM, Hal Stang wrote: Thanks Tony I appreciate. And will let you know when I am on the Road LOL. I worked mobile CW for years. LOL. 73, thanks for your time. Hal WD4MDA Me too Hal! I used to take along a Bulldog mini paddle http://www.amateurradioproducts.com/ and use it with the Icom 706. The built-in keyer works well once you tweak it a bit. Lots of fun, but a good size bump in the road can really scramble your sending for a moment, especially with the Econo-box I drove hi. Hope to work you ALE-400 /M. That would be a first for me! Tony -K2MO - Original Message - From: Tonyd...@optonline.net To:digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 3:53 AM Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Speech-to-Text for the Handicapped On 5/21/2010 3:28 AM, Hal Stang wrote: All, I am setting up my mobile rig again(icom 706/High Sierra Screwdriver/Ameritron amp). I wonder if you could run ALE400 or other digital modes from the mobile using speech recognition software??? Hal WD4MDA Hal, Skip Teller can answer your questions - see the thread on this subject. Tony -K2MO PS: Let us know when you're on the road. - Original Message - From: Tonyd...@optonline.net To:digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 6:41 PM Subject: [digitalradio] Speech-to-Text for the Handicapped All, Andy brought up the digital mode / text-to-speech idea recently and a thought came to mind that this could help the handicapped. I'm not sure if speech-to-text programs can transfer text to another application right out of the box, but assuming they did, there would still be the need for voice commands to control the program. Seems a second sound card may be needed as well; VAC might help. Skip Teller created Digitalk for the blind (thanks Skip) and Patrick wrote an interface for it (thank you Patrick) so the programs can talk. Andy's speech-to-text idea would complete the package. It's easy to suggest something like this while standing on the shoulders of experts like Patrick and Skip; I can only imagine what it takes to write the code. Just a thought. Tony -K2MO http://www.obriensweb.com/digispotter.html Chat, Skeds, and spots all in one (resize to suit)Yahoo! Groups Links http://www.obriensweb.com/digispotter.html Chat, Skeds, and spots all in one (resize to suit)Yahoo! Groups Links __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 5133 (20100520) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com http://www.obriensweb.com/digispotter.html Chat, Skeds, and spots all in one (resize to suit)Yahoo! Groups Links http://www.obriensweb.com/digispotter.html Chat, Skeds, and spots all in one (resize to suit)Yahoo! Groups Links __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 5133 (20100520) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com http://www.obriensweb.com/digispotter.html Chat, Skeds, and spots all in one (resize to suit)Yahoo! Groups Links http://www.obriensweb.com/digispotter.html Chat, Skeds, and spots all in one (resize to suit)Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digitalradio/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digitalradio/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: digitalradio-dig...@yahoogroups.com digitalradio-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: digitalradio-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[digitalradio] Sale AOR 5000=(+3)
Hi all, Just want 2 say that i sell my AOR 5000(+3). If somebody meed more info,just contact me.
[digitalradio] Re: 40M PSK transatlantic (10 years ago)
Since this month is the 10th anniversary of the start of the digitalradio group, I may resurrect a few old posts. This one is from 10 years ago where I still had not achieved trans-Atlantic DX on 40M PSK. Seems so normal these days. Andy K3UK --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Andrew J. O'Brien obrie...@... wrote: okay will try at 0300 and 0400 UTC, I guess I should check and see if we are allowed to us 7035 in the USA. , I guess we could also try PSK split! Andy KB2EOQ - Original Message - From: DL2RR dl...@... To: digitalra...@egroups.com Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2000 12:25 PM Subject: Re: [digitalradio] 40M PSK transatlantic Hello Andy, I am listening and calling on 7.035 MHz usually at 4:00z on saturday, sunday or perhaps also on one of the other days. If necessary and possible also earlier. I tried also between 0:00 and 2:00z but without any response. I will be to morrow waiting at 4:00z (maybe 3:00z) vy 73 de Dieter - DL2RR -- Von: Andrew J. O'Brien obrie...@... An: digitalra...@egroups.com; ps...@... Betreff: [digitalradio] 40M PSK transatlantic Datum: Samstag, 13. Mai 2000 16:10 I still have NOT made any transatlantic QSO's on 40M PSK. Anyone interested in trying this weekend and have any suggestions on how we do it? (what freqs) Andy KB2EOQ Fredonia, New York. Remember four years of good friends, bad clothes, explosive chemistry experiments. http://click.egroups.com/1/4051/0/_/_/_/958235196/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: digitalradio-unsubscr...@egroups.com
[digitalradio] Reminder: WNY Digital Net 0100 (09PM Eastern)
Reminder: The Western NY Digital Net 0100 (09PM Eastern) meets on 3583.5 . Net starts in Olivia 500/8 mode but may occasionally changes modes signaled via RS ID. The net is each Friday evening Eastern (early Saturday UTC)
RE: [digitalradio] Mobile CW
I found one really good place to put a paddle; between the seats under the hand-brake lever, for cars that have that setup. I've considered the shift lever -- if that's on the floor -- so one may rest his hand on the control and still reach down for keying. I would not think the steering wheel acceptable doe to large displacement during driving and the need to grasp it securely, which could cause undesired keying. Firm hand support is almost essential to prevent hand motions due to bumps, curves, etc. I've also had some decent results mounting a paddle or key on a pedestal structure between seats, but one's hand needs to fall naturally into place and not require stretching or an unnatural posture, **especially when driving!** But that option does take one hand off driving controls. Pilots have a multipurpose grip on the control stick to avoid problems like these and one of those adapted to the shifter might be ideal.. These are shaped so as to permit contact while retaining a good grip on the control column but yet not press switches inadvertently --there are FIRING switches on military aircraft! Be aware that many consider CW while driving a dangerous practice and prepare to accept flames for suggesting it. Or worse: a recently adopted NJ law on electronics while driving even prohibits LISTENING to a communications device. Digital connection: A CW to ASCII converter could allow digital operation without a display to take ones eyes off the road or a keyboard to take one's hands off the controls. Cortland KA5S [Original Message] From: Andy obrien k3uka...@gmail.com To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Date: 5/21/2010 5:58:09 AM Subject: [digitalradio] Mobile CW Hal/Tony, I wonder if the serious CW mobile operators might invent some CW sending capability from there steering wheels ? Since one's hands are on the sterring wheel most of the time some thumb sending might work. Andy On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 5:00 AM, Tony d...@optonline.net wrote: On 5/21/2010 4:28 AM, Hal Stang wrote: Thanks Tony I appreciate. And will let you know when I am on the Road LOL. I worked mobile CW for years. LOL. 73, thanks for your time. Hal WD4MDA http://www.obriensweb.com/digispotter.html Chat, Skeds, and spots all in one (resize to suit)Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digitalradio/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digitalradio/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: digitalradio-dig...@yahoogroups.com digitalradio-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: digitalradio-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
