[CQ-Contest] Past Prediction of the Future of Contesting.

[Hans Brakob]

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 at gmail.com<mailto:rjairam at 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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