16 Aug
2008
16 Aug
'08
12:23 p.m.
For quick and easy speech I still think the Votrax SC-01 ( datasheets link
below );
http://www.franweb.com/Other_Pages/electronics/votrax.htm
is the best bet. We used an Apple II with a dirt simple interface running
FORTH to set up a speech demo for an open house at Hughes. All you have to
do is send a Byte to generate a phoneme and the SC-01 tells you ( not
literally but through a handshake pin ) when to send the next Byte. You can
even do limited Spanish and other languages that use similar sounds ( forget
about Urdu ). You could do Esperanto but nobody speaks it....
Best regards, Steven
On 16 Aug 2008 at 10:40, bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca
wrote:
I thought Radio Shack (US) also sold voice roms
to go with some Archer
project stuff
in the 70's.
Yup, they did, as well as the TI sound effects chip. Of course, this
was also back in the day of the short-lived "Front passenger door is
ajar" voice eminating from the bowels of your auto.
That was a solution in search of a problem, if there ever was one.
Cheers,
Chuck