[CQ-Contest] AI for SSB RBN

[Stan Zawrotny]

It should be even easier for CW.

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Stan, K4SBZ





On Mon, Nov 4, 2024 at 5:29 PM JOHN GEIGER via CQ-Contest <
cq-contest at contesting.com> wrote:

> It shouldn't be too hard, then, to use AI to not only recognize callsigns
> and the exchange but also to respond to it with a voice synthesizer and to
> log the information.  We could completely automate SSB contesting,
> something like QST envisioned in their 1980s satirical piece "Have to find
> myself a hobby."
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> 73 John AF5CC
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> ---- On Mon, 04 Nov 2024 09:26:09 -0600 K3ZJ David Siddall <
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> I can think of at least two possible paths forward.
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> (1) Apple's Siri, Amazon's Alexa, and Google's Assistant (there are others)
> are very good at understanding what I say, as well as what visitors with
> various accents say.  With proper legal rights to one of these, or to a
> similar program, probably little new technology is needed for an SSB RBN
> although development would be non-trivial and might be limited to use of an
> approved list of phonetics.
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> (2) Digital voice -- which is more spectrum efficient and clearer -- might
> be easier to decode for RBN purposes.
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> 73, Dave K3ZJ
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> On Mon, Nov 4, 2024 at 7:35 AM <mailto:info at bokverket.com> wrote:
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> > "IMHO, using AI in it's current state to try and catch these is
> overkill."
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> > I do hope that most readers of this group realized that my suggesting
> using
> > AI do decode SSB calls on RBN was not meant to combat the few instances
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> > spam. Rather, to point out that AI could probably accomplish what RBN has
> > done for CW contesting and non-contesting.
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> > Whether this is a step forward och backward is in the ears of the
> receiver
> > :-)
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> > Sincerely,
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> > Goran, SM0DRD
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