6 May
2004
6 May
'04
11:47 a.m.
Davison, Lee wrote:
Anyone have the datasheet for this chip?
I am sure I do, because I have a handful of the chips in my lab at the
office.
I know they are in one of the National Semiconductor Databooks. I think
it is the one called Special Functions.
I've got one chip + 1 ROM that isn't either of
the usual speech
ROMs. This was supposed to have been pulled from a telephone
answering machine.
Mine were for a talking punch press control from about 1983. Funny that
the marketing guy that thought this up didn't realize that the noise in
a stamping plant is such that you can't hear yourself talk, let alone
listen to the machine tell you what was happening.
I think DigiTalker was more intelligible than VOTRAX, another voice
synthesizer chip, but had a limited vocabulary. If it was not in the ROM
it could not be said, so your "special" ROM makes sense. VOTRAX was a
phoneme generator. I have two of these. One is for a TRS-80 Model 3 and
the other is a "generic" parallel interface type.
Lee.
-chuck