[WriteLog] Full callsign.wav file Repository?

[Eric Hilding <dx35@hilding.com>]

One of my goals has always been to eventually make full callsign.wav files 
available to mute hams if desired.

A novel idea just came to mind, which may appeal to those without 
high-quality recording capabilities.  I'll probably get Flamed on this one, 
but that's nothing new :-)

But to put things in perspective, I'm sure there are many CW ops who once 
claimed they would never surrender their own personal "fist" to computer 
generated CW.  Many SSBers will probably shudder at the thought of using 
someone else's voice during a contest.

However...

For those of us embarking upon the laborious task of pre-recording full 
callsign.wav files & associated SSB Message stuff, I'm thinking now about 
possibly making my eventual SS .wav files available even to non-mute 
hams.  At 22KHz, 16bit mono, an individual .wav file will run somewhere 
between 75KB and 100KB depending upon callsign length (shorter if a faster 
speech rate and short Vanity callsigns).  Being conservative, 7,000 .wav 
files times 90KB each will be about 640MB which will just fit onto a CD-ROM 
(if I did the math correctly :-)

Due to the monster total file size, an online type Repository would not be 
very practical.  However, if others were interested in doing the same thing 
with their pre-recorded files, some samples could be available on a webpage 
for different "voices" available.  Maybe some *reasonable* fee for CD 
distribution of the files would be in order to those interested in a 
particular "voice" package to use, as well as any custom addition/recording 
of the end-user's callsign to be included with the batch of files.

Just some thoughts that came to mind today as a result of several personal 
direct emails received.

73...

Rick, K6VVA



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