I believe the FT450 AT also has speech built into it.  i just got this 
radio.  Haven't got it hooked up yet but from my understanding, it does 
have speech.
73
Jeff
KC9UIE

On 7/10/2015 9:01 PM, Michael Ryan wrote:
> Scott:
>
> Although a greate and flexable radio, there is no speech and you can't add
> it physically via internal board etc.
> You would only get speech through a PC running either ham radio delux or
> any other loging program that would proagat the frequency, band and mode
> fields etc.
> Also, this radio has a group of buttons which bring up a list of items then
> you use the select knob to adjust things. Very complex.
> The only Yaesu rig that has speech to my knowledge is the FT-450D and Yaesu
> doesn't plan on adding speech to anything else any time soon.
> So you could either spring for that 1, a Yaesu rig that has lots of buttons
> like the FT-950 and up or look for an excellent condition FT-847 which did
> have speech back in the day.
>
> 73:
> Mike DE VO1AX
>
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