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HamVoice
Voice control for amateur radio
Worldwide announcement · 2026-05-28

Tune, switch, and work the air with your voice.

HamVoice is the first hands-free voice-control platform for amateur-radio transceivers. Speak naturally — change frequency, mode, band, filter width, memory channel, split, RIT, and more — without touching the rig.

Live today on the ICOM IC-705.  Voice-driven tuning, mode switching, and band changes are working end-to-end against a stock IC-705 over its CI-V CAT interface as of 2026-05-28. Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and USB-C tethering all supported. Demonstration video and operator transcript below.

01What it sounds like

Real operator-to-rig session captured from a live IC-705 today. No buttons pressed. Lower latency than the operator's hand.

[sys]
HamVoice ready · bound to IC-705 · CI-V address 0xA4 · Bluetooth link up2026-05-28 19:42:11 EDT
op
"Tune to fourteen point two five zero"
rig
VFO A → 14.250.000 MHz · mode USB · filter 2.4 kHz
op
"Switch to CW, five hundred Hertz filter"
rig
mode CW · filter 500 Hz · CW pitch 600 Hz
op
"QSY to twenty meters, FT8 watering hole"
rig
VFO A → 14.074.000 MHz · mode USB-D
op
"Power five watts, split up two"
rig
RF power 5 W · split ON · VFO B = VFO A + 2.000 kHz
op
"Memory channel seven"
rig
Recall M07: 7.074.000 MHz · USB-D · "40m FT8"
op
"Tune the antenna"
rig
ATU cycle · matched 1.2:1 in 1.4 s
op
"Log this contact, call sign Whiskey One A B C, signal five nine"
[log]
Entry written → 2026-05-28 23:42:51Z · 7.074 MHz · FT8 · W1ABC · 59/59 · ADIF queued

02What you can say

Operator-natural phrasing. No wake-word forced. No fixed grammar. The system understands the language an operator actually uses on the air.

Frequency

Direct tuning

"Tune to fourteen two five zero" · "Go to seven point one nine five" · "Step up five kilohertz" · "Jump to forty meters"

Mode

Mode and filter

"Switch to USB" · "Lower side band" · "CW with five hundred hertz filter" · "FM repeater" · "Data USB"

Power

Power and ATU

"Power five watts" · "Full power" · "Tune the antenna" · "Match the tuner"

VFO

VFO, split, RIT

"VFO A" · "Swap VFOs" · "Split up two kilohertz" · "RIT plus five hundred" · "Clear RIT"

Memory

Memory and bands

"Memory channel seven" · "Save this as Field Day net" · "QSY to twenty meters" · "Six meter calling frequency"

Repeaters

Repeaters and offsets

"Local two meter repeater" · "Minus offset six hundred" · "Tone one hundred point zero" · "DMR talkgroup three one zero zero"

Logging

Voice logging

"Log this contact, call sign Whiskey One A B C, signal five nine" · "Mark this QSO for QSL" · "Add note: Field Day station"

Digital

Digital modes

"FT8 calling frequency" · "Switch to PSK31" · "Start WSJT-X" · "D-STAR reflector"

Status

Read-back and status

"What's my SWR?" · "Battery level" · "Current frequency" · "GPS grid square"

03Hardware compatibility

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.

Live today

ICOM IC-705

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.

Live today

ICOM IC-7300 mkII

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.

Live today

ICOM IC-R30 · BTech GMRS-PRO

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.

In bring-up

ICOM CI-V family

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.

Planned 2026

Yaesu CAT

FT-991A · FT-710 · FT-DX10 · FT-DX101D/MP · FTM/FTX mobile family.

Planned 2026

Kenwood CAT

TS-590SG · TS-890S · TS-990S · TS-2000 · TM-V71A.

Planned 2026

Elecraft / Flex / TenTec

K3/K3S/K4 · KX2/KX3 · FlexRadio 6000/8000 series via SmartSDR · TenTec Omni VII.

Future

SDR + remote rigs

RemoteHams · RigPi · Hamlib rigctld · HF over the internet for portable / mobility-impaired operators.

04Built for accessibility from day one

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.

Section 508 / ADA

Hands-free operating as a first-class mode

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.

Mobile + portable

Field Day, POTA, SOTA, mobile

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.

Inclusion

Open to every ITU region

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.

Multi-language

Worldwide-first

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.

05Technical at a glance

InventorRobert Ayers · [callsign — TBD by operator]
AssigneeEnvyGroup, LLC
Patent statusUS Provisional 64/076,430 filed 2026-05-28 at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Priority date locked.
Mobile platformsAndroid · iOS · Android Automotive · CarPlay · web companion
TransportBluetooth · Wi-Fi (LAN and WAN) · USB-C OTG · serial CAT · Hamlib rigctld bridge
Initial protocolICOM CI-V (full command set)
Voice engineOn-device automatic speech recognition with cloud fallback; PII never leaves the device unless the operator opts in
LoggingADIF export · Cabrillo (contest) · LoTW upload · QRZ.com / eQSL bridges
ComplianceFCC 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

73 — be the first to know when HamVoice ships.

Drop your email and call sign. We'll send a single announcement when the public beta is open. No marketing list, no third parties.

Worldwide ITU Regions 1, 2, and 3 welcome. SWLs welcome. Newly-licensed operators especially welcome.