AI and Amateur radio presentation

This weekend I gave a talk to the Macedon Ranges Amateur Radio Club about how at least one dimension of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, is starting to appear in amateur radio. 

I talked about the FreeDV project and demonstrated one of the best performing modes, 700D with its hand crafted (by David, VK5DGR) codec and modulation and then compared it with the new Radio Autoencoder (RADE) which uses machine learning to transmit amazing sounding voice over an RF bandwidth of about 1.5kHz.

There are many applications of machine learning in the amateur radio world that come to mind including:

• Morse decoding
• Noise removal
• Speech transcription
• More digital modes

We live at an amazing time in technology evolution.