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