[Trlog] Fwd: Full callsign.wav file Repository?

[Eric Hilding]

For TR CW users who use the "other" logger for SSB, this is a copy of my 
Post to the "other" Reflector.

>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