[CQ-Contest] SSB Voice Keying

[Björn SM0MDG]

Thanks for feedback Steve!

I experimented a little and found out that this is not a N1MM+ problem, the problem is with the sound card setup. I am running N1MM+ in a virtual machine in Parallels and if connecting the Behringer USB sound cart to directly windows (virtually) the delay is introduced. When connecting the sound card to OSX and setting Parallels to use the OSX default sound card it works well.

This solved half of my problem, the other half is N1MM+ being very unstable in my configuration. But thats a discussion for the N1MM+ forum.

73 de Björn,
SM0MDG
SE0X


> On 02 Mar 2016, at 18:52, Steve London <n2icarrl at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I am a member of the N1MM+ development team.
> 
> I just completed some measurements of the amount of time in between voicing of characters. I used the @ macro to voice the current receive frequency, and the "Use Logger+ Audio" option. On a 4-core HP Z400, with a standard (non-SSD) hard disk, the time from the completion of a character being voiced, to the start of the next character being voiced was consistently around 20 msec.
> 
> 73,
> Steve, N2IC
> 
> 
> On 03/02/2016 01:00 AM, Björn SM0MDG wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I have for a few years used the voice keying features of N1MM, mainly when operating my station via remote from our city apartment. This has worked out fairly well and has been keeping my family asleep during the most intense moments of the night. But with the upgrade of N1MM to N1MM+ voice keying is not as smooth anymore. The biggest difference is that a slight delay is being introduced between letter and number files making the exchange sounding very robotic.
>> 
>> I’d like to hear what other solutions are out there. I am looking for something that lets me run a complete SSB contest without saying a word into the microphone. I want it to sound as natural as possible and it should handle sequential number exchanges or anything else contest promotors can throw at us as an exchange. It should be possible to use it with N1MM and/or Wintest. Software solution is preferred but I won’t rule out hardware if not software can provide this.
>> 
>> Is there anything like this out there?
>> 
>> 73 de Björn,
>> SM0MDG
>> SE0X
>> 
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