hello howard, this box uses the rc systems double talk speech, and it 
also uses a pic and lots of code.  how ever this box could be used 
probably with any radio that has a cat port.  you have the correct 
idea, if a person wanted to develop firmware for the different 
radio's one box would probably be enough.  actually the box replaces 
the computer and screen reader.  so you have a stand alone box that 
can sit on top of the radio or beside it.  and as the data flows out 
of the radio's cat port the box presents the info in speech.  and 
commands sent from the box to the radio via the 16 button keypad are 
taken and the commands are done.  the nice thing is the output is 
automatic so you don't have to move something and then push a button 
to see what happened.  you can adjust the output and as you do the 
radio passes the info to the speech box and it is spoken by 
itself.  take care amigo, c u 73 mike w6quv



At 06:32 PM 12/13/2011, you wrote:
>Hello Mike,
>
>Good job to you and Rob.
>
>Is this unit centered around a micro controller and the triple talk
>synthesizer like the rotor controller you have?
>
>If this is the case, it would seem that this speech box would work for many
>applications with only a change in the code for the micro controller.  Thus
>there would only need to be one hardware device that would work for     many
>applications with the appropriate software.
>
>If this is the case, how feasible do you think it would be to developed code
>to read a variety of radios?  When we ordered, we would only have to tell
>you what radio we had and you would install the appropriate software.
>
>Forgive us if we seem to be  over excited about this.  It is time for
>technology to catch up so we can use the radios we purchase to their full
>potential.
>
>73's
>
>Howared, W A 9 Y B W
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Mike Cozzolino" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 6:26 PM
>Subject: k3 hardware reader
>
>
> > hello to all the k3 owners or the ones that want to be.  yesterday i
> > got my k3 hardware reader hooked up and its the cats meow.  i can
> > read all the menu choices and its automatically spoken.  i just turn
> > the knobs like a sighted user and the k3 hardware reader reads the
> > display in speech to me.  anything a sighted user can do now i can
> > do.  i retired my original unit that i used while this was being
> > developed.  anyway just wanted to let everybody on the list to be
> > aware of this development.  that makes the steppir control and now
> > the k3 reader and next is the steppir new controller and then the
> > talking wattmeter.  73 to all mike w6quv