HamVoice Patent pending · 64/076,430
Voice control for amateur radio · Live today on IC-705, IC-7300 mkII, IC-R30
Real operator-to-rig session captured from a live IC-705 today. No buttons pressed. Lower latency than the operator's hand.
When HamVoice confirms your command, this is what you hear. Synthesized in the operator's headset with sub-300ms latency — no cloud round-trip, runs entirely on-device. Hit play.
"Tune to fourteen point two five zero"
Tuned to 14.250 MHz, USB
"Switch to upper sideband, 500 hertz filter"
Mode switched. USB. 500 Hz filter.
"What's my SWR?"
SWR is 1.2:1. Antenna is good.
"Log this contact, W1ABC, 59 by 57"
QSO logged. Whiskey One Alpha Bravo Charlie, 59 by 57.
Read-back voice: ElevenLabs neural TTS (Jessica). HamVoice ships with both on-device (sub-300ms, offline) and cloud-quality (best fidelity) voice modes — operator picks. Voice biometric is patent-pending for read-back authentication.
Operator-natural phrasing. No wake-word forced. No fixed grammar. The system understands the language an operator actually uses on the air.
"Tune to fourteen two five zero" · "Go to seven point one nine five" · "Step up five kilohertz" · "Jump to forty meters"
"Switch to USB" · "Lower side band" · "CW with five hundred hertz filter" · "FM repeater" · "Data USB"
"Power five watts" · "Full power" · "Tune the antenna" · "Match the tuner"
"VFO A" · "Swap VFOs" · "Split up two kilohertz" · "RIT plus five hundred" · "Clear RIT"
"Memory channel seven" · "Save this as Field Day net" · "QSY to twenty meters" · "Six meter calling frequency"
"Local two meter repeater" · "Minus offset six hundred" · "Tone one hundred point zero" · "DMR talkgroup three one zero zero"
"Log this contact, call sign Whiskey One A B C, signal five nine" · "Mark this QSO for QSL" · "Add note: Field Day station"
"FT8 calling frequency" · "Switch to PSK31" · "Start WSJT-X" · "D-STAR reflector"
"What's my SWR?" · "Battery level" · "Current frequency" · "GPS grid square"
First-light vendor: ICOM, over the CI-V CAT protocol. Multi-vendor by design — every major commercial CAT protocol is a connector. ICOM, Yaesu, Kenwood, Elecraft, FlexRadio, and TenTec families are on the roadmap.
HF + 50/144/430 MHz, 10W, BT/Wi-Fi/USB-C, GPS, D-STAR. CI-V over BT, USB-C, or Wi-Fi. Full voice control validated 2026-05-28.
HF + 50 MHz, 100W. Voice control validated over the mkII's built-in Ethernet/LAN interface — full remote-shack operation. The same code path will land USB-OTG CI-V for the legacy IC-7300 in the bring-up cohort.
Wideband HT receiver (IC-R30) with voice tuning over Bluetooth. BTech GMRS-PRO programming via reverse-engineered BLE+RFCOMM+GAIA. Repeater discovery (myGMRS.com API) + route planner + CSV export.
IC-9700 · IC-7610 · IC-7100 · IC-R8600 · legacy IC-7300 (USB-OTG CI-V). Shared CI-V command set; expected first-class in weeks.
FT-991A · FT-710 · FT-DX10 · FT-DX101D/MP · FTM/FTX mobile family.
TS-590SG · TS-890S · TS-990S · TS-2000 · TM-V71A.
K3/K3S/K4 · KX2/KX3 · FlexRadio 6000/8000 series via SmartSDR · TenTec Omni VII.
RemoteHams · RigPi · Hamlib rigctld · HF over the internet for portable / mobility-impaired operators.
Hams have always been a community of inclusion. HamVoice was designed from the start to give vision-impaired, mobility-impaired, and ADA-protected operators full station control by voice alone. No touch screen. No knobs. No memorized button sequences.
Every command exposes a verbal read-back. Status — frequency, mode, SWR, battery, GPS grid — is speakable on demand. The HamVoice operator never needs to look at the radio.
The OS-agnostic mobile app (Android, iOS, Android Automotive, CarPlay) lets you change band sitting in a car, climbing a mountain, or pedaling a bicycle. Distracted-driving safe by design.
The voice grammar understands worldwide band-plan vocabulary: ITU Regions 1, 2, and 3. Metric and imperial units. Frequency in MHz or kHz. Operator-natural call-sign phonetics.
English at launch. German, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, and French planned next. Phonetic alphabets handled in any language a licensed operator already uses on the air.
| Inventor | Robert Ayers · [callsign — TBD by operator] |
| Assignee | EnvyGroup, LLC |
| Patent status | US Provisional 64/076,430 filed 2026-05-28 at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Priority date locked. |
| Mobile platforms | Android · iOS · Android Automotive · CarPlay · web companion |
| Transport | Bluetooth · Wi-Fi (LAN and WAN) · USB-C OTG · serial CAT · Hamlib rigctld bridge |
| Initial protocol | ICOM CI-V (full command set) |
| Voice engine | On-device automatic speech recognition with cloud fallback; PII never leaves the device unless the operator opts in |
| Logging | ADIF export · Cabrillo (contest) · LoTW upload · QRZ.com / eQSL bridges |
| Compliance | FCC Part 97 (US) · ITU-R for international operators · Section 508 / WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility · distracted-driving statutes in all 50 US states, Canada, UK, EU, and Australia |
Three audiences, one platform. Pick the one that sounds like you.
You've worked Field Day from a tent in the rain. You contest. You DX. You log a thousand QSOs a year and you'd rather not break to find the band button.
You passed your Technician (congrats!) — but the rig has forty buttons and the manual is six hundred pages. You'd rather just say what you want.
Curious about ham radio but the test feels intimidating? HamVoice will be your study buddy — and your first rig will already understand you.
You don't need a license to listen. You don't need to be technical to pass the Technician test. Field Day this weekend is the perfect time to walk up to a club and ask. They'll let you make a QSO.