Voice Guidance 13; Adjusting The Voice Guidance Volume; Adjusting The Voice Guidance Speed; Configuring The Voice Guidance Language - Kenwood TS-890S Instruction Manual

13 VOICE GUIDANCE
This transceiver comes with a voice guidance that sends out a
voice notification of the operating status that is displayed on the
screen.
The voice guidance content is described in the following style in
this manual.
The actual voice guidance content is enclosed
Voice
in quotation marks (" ").
Content of the voice guidance is described
Numeric values and
collectively using numeric values and
alphabets
alphabets.
The actual voice guidance content is listed up
using [ ]. Each option is separated from the
Options
other by a slash (/), and only one of the options
will be uttered at a time.
Voice Guidance
Pressing the PF key that is assigned with the voice guidance
function outputs a guidance voice on the operating status from the
built-in speaker.
The following 4 types of voice guidance are available.
VOICE1
Announces the current frequency and operating status.
The default setting is [PF A].
VOICE2
Announces the status of the S meter and power meter.
The default setting is [PF B].
VOICE3
Announces the status of the meter selected in F [METER] except
for the power meter.
The default setting is [PF C].
Auto Announce
Announces automatically when a specific operation is performed
or upon entering a specific status. The default setting is "OFF".

Adjusting the Voice Guidance Volume

Adjust the volume level of the voice guidance. When the voice
guidance volume is set to OFF, pressing the corresponding PF key
does not output a voice guidance announcement from this
transceiver.
Configure in Menu [1-03] "Voice Guidance Volume"
Setting Value Off/ 1 to 10 (default) to 20 (1 step)
• Configuring to a larger value raises the volume level.

Adjusting the Voice Guidance Speed

Adjust the speed of the announcement.
Configure in Menu [1-04] "Voice Guidance Speed"
Setting Value 1 (default) to 4 (1 step)
• The larger the value, the faster the speed of the
announcement. (1:1x (normal speed), 2:1.15x, 3:1.3x,
4:1.45x)
Increasing the voice guidance speed may sometimes
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cause the audibility to deteriorate depending on the
content of the announcement.

Configuring the Voice Guidance Language

The voice guidance language can be configured to English or
Japanese.
Configure in Menu [1-05] "User Interface Language
(Voice Guidance & Messages)"
Setting Value English (default)/ Japanese

Auto Voice Guidance

When auto voice guidance is set to ON, a voice guidance is
automatically output when a specific operation is performed.
Configure in Menu [1-06] "Automatic Voice
Guidance"
Setting Value Off (default)/ On
When this function is in the OFF status, turning on the
●
power of this transceiver while pressing down the [PF
A] key turns on [Auto Voice Guidance].
• When auto voice guidance is ON, voice guidance is output
in the following sequence.
*1
: Announces the VFO ("A" or "B") that is currently operating.
*2
: "X" is uttered when XIT is ON, "R" is uttered when RIT is ON,
and "XR" is announced followed by the RIT/XIT frequencies
when both XIT and RIT are ON. The numeric values of the
"RIT/XIT frequencies" are announced in sequence starting
from the kHz digit. "Point" is uttered after the kHz value. If the
frequency is a negative value, "Minus" is uttered at the
beginning.
*3 : [USB/ LSB/ CW/ FSK/ PSK/ FM/ AM/ USB Data/ LSB Data/
CW Reverse/ FSK Reverse/ PSK Reverse/ FM Data/ AM
Data]
*4
: When in the SWL mode, "SWL" is added to the beginning of
the announcement.
Operation on
This Key Operation
Transceiver
When powering
-
on
Switching
between VFO A [A/B]
and VFO B
Switching
between the
VFO mode and [M/V]
memory channel
mode
[M V]
Memory shift
F [M VFO]
Switching to the
quick memory [Q-MR>]
channel mode
Switching of the
memory channel
in the memory
mode (except
Turn
when the
[MULTI/CH]
Memory
Channel List
screen is
displayed)

VOICE GUIDANCE 13

Content of Voice Guidance
Announces the data used for
operation regardless of the status of
the setting screen. Refer to "Voice
1" (13-2).
Outputs announcements according
to the operating status after
switching. Refer to "Voice 1"
(13-2).
Announces the data used for
operation. Refer to "Voice 1"
(13-2).
Announces the details of the quick
memory channel mode. Refer to
"Voice 1" (13-2).
Blank channel:
"Channel" + Number + "Blank"
Simplex mode:
"Channel" + Number + Frequency +
([X/ R/ XR] + RIT/XIT Frequency)
Split mode:
"Channel" + Number + "Split" +
Frequency + ([X/ R/ XR] + RIT/XIT
Frequency)
*2
13-1
*2