Wow! I don’t want it to exist? Really, Ria, I didn’t think that is what I
meant at all. It already exists but thankfully hasn’t been adopted by hams.
Voice recognition technology is not some bleeding edge technology being
pioneered by amateur radio as the world waits for us to prove it out. Siri has
been doing it for decades.
And it really has nothing to do with “advancing the radio art”. Voice
recognition is “post radio”, more properly characterized as “information
processing” technology, not “amateur radio technology”.
In some aspects of amateur radio I think that it might well be a VERY useful
technology, for instance traffic handling during an incident involving an EOC,
the Red Cross, or other served agencies where analog voice could be
“translated” to printed hard copy messages.
Meanwhile this thread deals specifically with “the Future of CONTESTING”.
The purpose of a voice contest is to test for the SKILL of an operator to
identify a target station, contact that station, accurately copy specified
bit(s) of information, and transcribe that accurately to a log. The key word
is SKILL! A voice skimmer (with a logical follow-on that copied and logged the
exchange) completely obviates the need for operator SKILL, and in fact obviates
the need for the contest at all!
Rather than advancing our skills and the radio art, it serves to diminish the
development of our skills and contributes nothing to the art of radio.
73, de Hans, K0HB
From: rjairam@gmail.com<mailto:rjairam@gmail.com>
But "Please, no, a thousand times NO!" by Hans means that he doesn't want that
piece of tech to exist.
Ria
N2RJ
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