Hi Don - I think maybe I should have made it clear that my suggestions
were intended only, or at least principally, for native speakers of
English. You're smart to evaluate what works better for you, and then to
tailor your approach accordingly.
I know it is much harder to slow down, in any language, when you're
excited. Perhaps you could add some additional recorded messages to your
inventory, like a "repeat exchange message", for example. Of course,
that will be hard in the WPXSSB with serial numbers. While N1MM Logger
has a facility for advanced voicing of serial numbers, which adds the
tens, hundreds and thousands to the bare numbers, I have not
experimented with those to learn if I can make the voicing as
intelligible as my own speech.
73, Pete N4ZR
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On 3/7/2013 7:57 PM, Katsuhiro Kondou wrote:
In article <51388874.1060705@contesting.com>,
Pete Smith N4ZR <n4zr@contesting.com> wrote,
on "Thu, 07 Mar 2013 07:30:44 -0500";
Before last weekend's contest, I had a chance to experiment a bit with
my voice recordings. One of the problems I have always had is that
when I try to enunciate clearly I always slow down, and the resulting
recording lacks the urgency you expect in a contest situation. I also
always notice stations whose recorded and live audio don't sound
anything alike, and wanted to minimize that as much as possible.
This may be due to my enounciation, but during the contest I was
sometimes told by US stations that speak slowly. So I often try
to do so intentinally. And in my experiance, comparing my voice
with voice keyer, voice keyer gets better callback rate than mine.
The tempo from the keyer is slower. YMMV.
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