Yes, and it would probably cost a lot more than you'd want to pay, or 
Kenwood would want to charge.  Most people (not blind hams, of course) would 
find the synthesized voice much harder to understand, which would decrease 
sales, which would further raise the price, etc.

Steve

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Curtis Delzer" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2012 09:18
Subject: Re: VGS-1 Mystery


> there is a very simple reason the synthesizer "speeds" up, because it
> is recordings of a female saying the words. It is not a synthesizer,
> only recordings of words, etc. In order to accommodate true speed up,
> it would have to be a type of synthesizer as in JFW, human speech
> types as Tom or Samantha, Neo Speech Paul or Kate.
> Then, it would speak much more than it can with just recordings.
>
> Curt
> W B 6 H E F
>
> At 04:30 AM 1/6/2012, you wrote:
>>I experienced the same thing and believe someone fell asleep when =
>>developing this feature. In fact my only complaints with the speech is =
>>the fact you cannot speed it up and you cannot set what things speak. =
>>For example, when I adjust the filter I would rather not hear "shift =
>>600" blah blah.
>>Otherwise, the voice is really great on this rig.
>>
>>On Jan 5, 2012, at 3:09 PM, Steve wrote:
>>
>> > BlankOk, got my TS-590 all installed.
>> >=20
>> > With the VGS-1, supposedly Menu 7 is supposed to change the announce =
>>speed.=20
>> > It varies from 1 to 4.
>> >=20
>> > However, on my unit, it changes pitch.  Do I have a defect, or is =
>>announce=20
>> > speed one of those things that's lost in the translation?
>> >=20
>> > Steve, K8SP
>> > Lansing, MI
>