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Re: voice synthesis
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lugnet.robotics.handyboard
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Date:
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Tue, 1 Jul 1997 13:38:54 GMT
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Fred G. Martin <fredm@media.mit.edu%Spamless%>
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> Has anyone been able to set up a voice synthesis circuit with their Handy
> Board? I remember that quite a few years ago, Radio Shack carried a pair
> of voice synthesis chips that appeared easy to connect to an 8 bit data bus
[snip]
RC Systems, Inc. makes a low-cost ASCII to voice board that provides
far better performance than the now-discontinued General Instrument
speech chip set many are familiar with. The RC Systems product is a
small board with a CPU and a custom English text to phoneme converter.
It accepts TTL level serial as input and includes an LM386 power
op-amp so you just hook a speaker to the board and it's ready to talk.
The board has a socket for an NV-RAM chip to serve as an exception
dictionary. It also can generate DTMF codes and other musical
outputs.
All in all, it's a pretty awesome little board for US$150. I don't
know of anything else like it on the market.
RC Systems, Inc.
1609 England Avenue
Everett, WA 98203 USA
phone: 206 355-3800
fax: 355-1098
UK/Europe dealer: +4481 539 0285
Standard disclaimer applies: I have no affiliation with RC Systems
other than having tried and liked their product.
-Fred
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| (...) Wow, impressive board. However, it's a bit out of my price range - I was hoping for a solution just about as cheap as the Radio Shack one used to be. Quality of speech isn't that much of a factor, I'm merely going to try and put this thing on (...) (27 years ago, 3-Jul-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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