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by peterbmarks 2921 days ago
Speech to text is certainly getting better but it makes mistakes. If the transcribed text was sent over the link and then a text to speech spoke at the other end you'd lose one of the great things about codec2 - the voice that comes out is recognisable as it sounds a bit like the person.

A few of us have a contact on Sunday mornings here in Eastern Australia and it's amazing how the ear gets used to the sound and it quickly becomes quite listenable and easy to understand.
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andai 2921 days ago
Could you elaborate on "a contact"?

Are you using Codec2 over radio?

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baobrien 2921 days ago
Yeah, the main use case for codec2 right now is over ham radio. David Rowe, along with a few others, also developed a couple of modems and a GUI program[1]. On Sunday mornings, around 10AM, they do a broadcast of something from the WIA and answer callbacks.

[1] - https://freedv.org/

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