[Xastir] Suggestion with speech

[Dan]

It would be good to have the option to use the festival feature with just
the current station being tracked, or with a given callsign(s).

I like the voice feature, but it becomes completely worthless and overloads
festival's buffer when there are more than 3-4 callsigns inside the maximum
area, depending on the GPS update time. I have had to wait 10 minutes for
the buffer to "read" itself out in busy areas.

I use xastir in my car laptop, and it would become even more invaluable with
the above features. My main use would be to hear how close I was to another
unit when roaming around a course in a public service event.

Any hope of implementation?

Thanks

-Dan N7NMD


On 9/17/07, Curt, WE7U <archer at eskimo.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 15 Sep 2007, Steve Friis wrote:
>
> > I noticed that when speech is activated with "tracked station", the
> > proximity alerts enumerate how close the tracked station is in relation
> > to every other station within the distance parameter. This seems like an
> > awful waste of resources and very annoying. My thought is that I would
> > only want this station to tell me where it is at in relation to me. I
> > could care less where it is at in relation to each weather station,
> > mobile on the highway, base station and digipeater. Am I wrong or
> > missing some point?
>
> I believe this feature was added to support a particular event.
> Memory is fuzzy, but I think it might have been the NYC Marathon or
> similar.  The idea was that they could listen to the speech instead
> of having to watch the map to know where each tracker was in
> relation to each checkpoint along the course.
>
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