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/
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/
Re: [digitalradio] Speech-to-Text for the Handicapped
Tony, I am not sure what you mean, but you can use Dragon Software's Naturally Speaking, version 10, and dictate into the TX window of most programs (such as DigiPan, and fldigi, and maybe even Multipsk (although have not tested it with Multipsk) and not have to type. However, Naturally Speaking does not handle callsigns very well, so what I do is create macros to do all that and then just speak what I want to send out. For conversation, it pays to train Naturally Speaking for a couple of weeks, and then you will have very few corrections to make. For example, to carry on a QSO: Press F4: TXCALL DE MYCALL Say, Now is the time for all good hams to try Contestia! Press F5: BTU CALL DE MYCALL K RX Obviously, you need enough capability to press a macro button with one finger in this case, or type in a callsign when necessary or double-click on it with a mouse. Digitalk will translaste hamspeak fairly well - enough to have a meaningful QSO, but will pronounce OK as Oklahoma - nothing I can do about that except by incorporating a very powerful program that figures out what is intended in the context of the conversation - not very practical for ham QSO's! DigiTalk will also spell out any words that contain a letter, such a K2MO, or FT1000. It recognizes BTU as Back to you and spells out most Q signals, like QRT, QSL, etc.. I am slowly build a larger vocabulary of hamspeak abbreviations, etc. for DigiTalk, but this is not my full-time job! So, the code is already there for listening to PSK31, and a program for sending PSK31 by voice. Naturally Speaking also can be trained to recognize some unique commands, but I have not spent enough time with it to know everything it can do. Naturally Speaking is $40 at Target stores. 73 - Skip KH6TY Tony wrote: 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 * 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 5/20/2010 8:02 PM, KH6TY wrote: Tony, I am not sure what you mean, but you can use Dragon Software's Naturally Speaking, version 10, and dictate into the TX window of most programs (such as DigiPan, and fldigi, and maybe even Multipsk I didn't know that Skip - thanks for passing that along. Naturally Speaking does not handle callsigns very well, so what I do is create macros to do all that and then just speak what I want to send out. It's interesting that the software can associate F-keys with voice commands. Obviously, you need enough capability to press a macro button with one finger in this case, or type in a callsign when necessary or double-click on it with a mouse. I guess it would take some doing to make it completely hands-free. DigiTalk will also spell out any words that contain a letter, such a K2MO, or FT1000. It recognizes BTU as Back to you and spells out most Q signals, like QRT, QSL, etc.. I am slowly build a larger vocabulary of hamspeak abbreviations, etc. for DigiTalk, but this is not my full-time job! Understood Skip - I'm sure it takes a lot of time. Bet there are hams with disabilities out there who appreciate your work. So, the code is already there for listening to PSK31, and a program for sending PSK31 by voice. Naturally Speaking also can be trained to recognize some unique commands, but I have not spent enough time with it to know everything it can do. Naturally Speaking is $40 at Target stores. 73 - Skip KH6TY Thanks Skip. Tony -K2MO Tony wrote: 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 __ 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/
