Sound chips

They may very well still sell it. I built a parallel port speech sythethiser magazines. I may even have it still in one the boxes that I packed way back and haven't since opened. It had the same phonetics system as some of the SoundBlaster chips and had the same monotone speak that the old Dr. SBaitso and that Hawkings' synth have. Nonetheless it was cool to hear speech from my 8088 then. -----Original Message----- From: owner-classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org [mailto:owner-classiccmp@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Richard Erlacher Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 7:48 AM To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org Subject: Re: Sound chips Back in the early '80's they sold that speech chip in a blister pack. I think the crux was getting the 3.12 MHz (I remember that only because getting one was such a PITA) crystal, though, for which the device was specified, and which had to come from somewhere else at the time. Aside from having to translate the timing intervals, I think a color-burst crystal would probably work with this device, though. A 10-12% increase in pitch wouldn't make much difference as far as intellibility is concerned. Dick ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Hellige" <jhellige(a)earthlink.net> To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org> Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 6:55 PM Subject: Re: Sound chips