Professional grade radios with voice announcement

[Danny37]

What professional commercial handheld radio do custom voice announcement when you change through channels besides the xts2500/5000 series and the apx series?

Non-Motorola radios welcomed as well.

 

[mmckenna]

Kenwood NX-5000

 

[kjl13]

Kenwoods are just, ehh

Kenwood NX-5000

 

[RodStrong]

The EFJ/Kenwood Viking series radios will do voice announcement.

 

[speedway_navigator]

Hytera has it, some are numbers only, others are custom.

 

[Project25_MASTR]

Motorola's XPR line has it (may only be available in the XPR5500 and XPR7500 series).

On the far end of the spectrum, Maxon's TS-2000 line has it (which is a 2W sub $100 portable).

 

[domes]

Motorola has another first ???? First for them maybe.
Kenwood has added it to all their new models and upgraded models since about 2010 so it now is in all its product line from their warehouse grade radios on up. Some models have voice mailbox capability as well.

 

[mmckenna]

Kenwood NX-3000 line.

Generic zone/channel number announcements have been available for a long time on the Kenwood radios with the addition of the VGS-1 voice storage model. As Domes said, they can operate like a voice mail box.
Nothing new, many brands/models have this. Was a big deal 10 years ago, no so much anymore.

Personally, I found it annoying and shut it off after playing with it for a while.

 

[Danny37]

Kenwood NX-3000 line.

Generic zone/channel number announcements have been available for a long time on the Kenwood radios with the addition of the VGS-1 voice storage model. As Domes said, they can operate like a voice mail box.
Nothing new, many brands/models have this. Was a big deal 10 years ago, no so much anymore.

Personally, I found it annoying and shut it off after playing with it for a while.

I find it very useful, especially when you don't need to have radio facing you to know what channel you're on. I picked up a vertex vx-451 radio recently that does voice channel announcement. I can wait to recieve it and use it as my daily carry/work radio. It's inexpensive, durable, waterproof and I'll feel less guilty ruining that then my xts5000 radio.

Last week my xts5000 got some water on it from the rain and I died a little inside.

 

[domes]

Last week my xts5000 got some water on it from the rain and I died a little inside.

Then you are buying the wrong radios. The latest Kenwood models are IP67 Immersion Proof. Even the new P500 entry level/warehouse radio ($250/300) is Immersion proof. Knowing KW, I doubt you will see any new products that will not be Immersion proof.

 

[Danny37]

Last week my xts5000 got some water on it from the rain and I died a little inside.

Then you are buying the wrong radios. The latest Kenwood models are IP67 Immersion Proof. Even the new P500 entry level/warehouse radio ($250/300) is Immersion proof. Knowing KW, I doubt you will see any new products that will not be Immersion proof.

The radio is fine but it's my baby and I love it so much that if anything were to happen to it, I don't know what I would do. It's mostly for hobby use.

The vertex I picked up is immersion proof as well, I can't wait to get my hands on it.