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My biggest issue with digitalk is the voice, poor as it is, comes out the
sound card the radio's hooked up to. I can't get it to talk out a different
one from the one it's on the air with though the author of the program says
you can, I haven't figured that out yet.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Forst" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 3:46 PM
Subject: Re: psk 31
> Roy,
>
> I've also used Digipan with limited success.
> The problem is getting jaws to read the incoming text properly. It
> wants to repeat the entire line as each new word is added.
>
> "Hello, my name is Steve" will come out as:
>
> Hello
> Hello my
> Hello my name
> Hello my name is
> Hello my name is Steve.
>
> Drives you nuts and the other guy is long finished his tx and jaws is
> still droning on.
>
> Something that will sometimes work to fix this is to go into Digipan's
> font
> menu and change the font type, style, and then set the size to a large
> number. Something over 24 has sometimes worked. Even if I am lucky
> enough
> to find a combo of settings that works, I can't reproduce it the next
> time
> I run the program. Frustrating.
>
> Another free download is Digitalk hby KH6TY. It's a psk program for the
> blind and uses it's own voice, but the voice is poor quality. The
> program
> is very basic and has limited features and although I find it cumbersome
> to
> use, it does work. In my case, due to windows and driver updates,
> somewhere along the line it will no longer run on my pc and crashes when
> started.
>
> You may have better success with either of these programs. One nice thing
> about them both is that they use the left and right arrow keys to jump to
> the next signal to decode. A sighted ham would use the mouse to click on
> a signal on the screen.
>
> I've not been happy with my attempts at psk, so I limit my digital work
> to
> RTTY, where I've had much better success.
>
> 73, Steve KW3A
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