[Elecraft] HRD cw copy

[Brett Howard]

Me thinks you've hit upon one of the man's loves! :)

On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 09:18 -0800, wayne burdick wrote:
> Dan Romanchik KB6NU wrote:
> 
> > But copying CW isn't like trying to understand natural language.  If
> > computers can now beat grandmasters at chess, computers should be able
> > to copy any code that a good operator can decipher.  I don't even
> > think we need more powerful computers; we just need better algorithms.
> 
> Humans use lexicographical and semantic clues to fill in dropped CW 
> characters, and computers can do the same. But this goes way beyond the 
> simple signal processing used in, say, the K3's present CW decoder or 
> the one used in HRD. (I studied natural language recognition in college 
> and was anxious to play with either neural networks or traditional AI 
> methods as the foundation for CW decoding, but my other classes got in 
> the way :) <.....>