4 May
2004
4 May
'04
9:01 a.m.
Anyone have the datasheet for this chip?
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.
Lee.
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4 May
4 May
10:01 a.m.
Davison, Lee wrote:
Anyone have the datasheet for this chip?
Yes, I have one. It's dated December 1980. The speech chip is a
40-pin package with a 4MHz clock and fairly standard address and
data lines.
I can send you a photocopy of the data sheet if that'd help.
--
John Honniball
coredump(a)gifford.co.uk
11:29 a.m.
At 10:01 PM 5/4/04 +0100, you wrote:
Anyone have the datasheet for this chip?
No but it's online somewhere. I searched and found some interesting
sites for these about 6 months ago. FWIW I have a HP-IB box that has one of
these in it. I haven't figured it out entirely but it's cool as hell to
send it a string over HP-Ib and listen to it talk.
Joe
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.
Lee.
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6 May
6 May
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
5:51 p.m.
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.
VOTRAX, that brings back memories. I once used one of those; it was a
serial-port model, with phonemes chosen by characters sent down a
serial line from the host...it was a kinda fun toy.
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7 May
7 May
9:21 a.m.
VOTRAX, that brings back memories. I once used one of
those; it was a
serial-port model, with phonemes chosen by characters sent down a
serial line from the host...it was a kinda fun toy.
I got one, new in the box, a year or so ago at a flea. I have yet
to actually try it (what with all my stuff in deep storage at the
moment -- but poised to come home to my new house)
Megan Gentry
Former RT-11 Developer
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10 a.m.
I have a VOTRAX as well, sitting on a shelf in my office on top of a DECtalk
unit.
I've got to start playing more with this stuff...
-- Tony
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VOTRAX, that brings back memories. I once used one of
those; it was a
serial-port model, with phonemes chosen by characters sent down a
serial line from the host...it was a kinda fun toy.
I got one, new in the box, a year or so ago at a flea. I have yet
to actually try it (what with all my stuff in deep storage at the
moment -- but poised to come home to my new house)
Megan Gentry
Former RT-11 Developer
+--------------------------------+-------------------------------------+
| Megan Gentry, EMT/B, PP-ASEL,ST| email: mbg at world.std.com |
| Member of Technical Staff | megan at savaje.com |
| SavaJe Technologies, Inc. | (s/ at /@/) |
| 100 Apollo Drive | URL: http://world.std.com/~mbg/ |
| Chelmsford, MA 01824 | "pdp-11 programmer - some assembler |
| (978) 256 6521 (DEC '77-'98) | required." - mbg KB1FCA |
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