Now that ANDE and RAFT are both speaking, here are the packet-to-voice synthesizer rules:

1) it turns the packet header into "XXXXXX says" 2) it then speaks normal english and normal spellings.. 3) It tries to spell CAPS, but we found that to force it to speak a callsign correctly independent of starting character if you make the second character a "!" then it will always speak properly. Such as W!B4APR will be spoken as wb4apr as expected.

Here are DK3WN and PE1ITR in packet-to-voice QSO:

http://www.ew.usna.edu/~bruninga/ande/ande_11022007_2238.mp3

WB4APR, Bob

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RAFT is weaker, but speaks... * if ANYONE has CONNECTED RAFT * Then any APRS MSG to TALK will be spoken

ANDE is stronger, but is lazy and sleeps unless woken up. * ANDE must be awakened by 145.825 activity * ANDE voice must be activated by command station each pass * Then any APRS MSG to TALK will be spoken

ANDE has better link performance for users, but needs command stations, but you get more workable passses due to its better links.

For more info, see the ANDE-RAFT-OPS web page. http://www.ew.usna.edu/~bruninga/ande-raft-ops.html

Enjoy!

Bob Bruninga, WB4APR US Naval Academy Satellite Lab