3 Feb
2008
3 Feb
'08
1:54 p.m.
Pete,
The SP0256 had the best sounding speech I think ( it uses twice as many
speech sounds ( 128 allophones ? ) as the SC-01 only had 64 phonemes )).
The SC-01 is very easy to use ( it was used in the Heathkit Hero Robots )
but sounds very robotic and " nasal ". Heathkit Robots did have some songs
( like " Daisy " that HAL sang in 2001 ) but it sings as well as William
Shatner .... All depends on what you are looking for; quality or easy to
use.
Best regards, Steven
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 05:23:09PM +0000, Pete
Turnbull wrote:
try.
On 31/01/2008 16:27, Jim Brain wrote:
>On a related topic, someone is offering to trade me some GI SP0256-AL2
>ICs for equipment here.
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I always wanted to build a SC-01 or SP0256
phenome-based
Amazingly enough, I happen to have all three sets here with me, the
Digitalker (which I'm just learning about), the SP0256, which I've heard
of, but never heard, and the SC-01, which I probably know the most about.
I have an SC-01 in my RB5X robot here, and at home, in my Gorf arcade
machine. The SC-01 is versatile enough that there's code for the RB5X
to have it try and sing. I can't say that it's wonderful, but it does
system to compare. Does anyone have experience in
one or the other and
can relate whether it's worth it to get an SP0256
The SP0256 sounds very robotic compared to the NS and Texas devices.
The SC-01 is reputedly better (variable pitch, for one thing) but I've
not got much experience of either.
I will have to snarf a copy of those Digitalker docs when the our sat
comes up. The board I have here, built around 1990, uses the original
speech chip, but the ROM data is on a single, modern JEDEC EPROM, not
a pair of smaller, cross-selected Nat-Semi ROMs. I'll have to do a bit
of fiddling with the board itself - its CPU is an 8031, but the CPU
crystal was broken off before I got the board. I was going to try 8MHz
first, but it could be faster, I suppose. Assuming it's not some oddball
frequency (the board has no serial comms, IIRC), I was thinking 8Mhz,
12Mhz, or 16Mhz.
-ethan