Voice playback chips

[Merlin Zener]

Kent Lundberg wrote:
> 
> [...snip] and I came across [...snip] these little voice recoder
> modules that they use in greeting cards and cheap toys.  
> [...snip]
> They can record and playback up to 10 or 12 seconds of sound, the
> recording is addressable in 150 ms bursts, and the look pretty idiot
> proof.  While they are completely self contained, they do have an
> external clock input (which the datasheet says DO NOT CHANGE) which
> might be fun to play with.
> 
> Have anybody else played with these little things?

I built up a 4 player game once where each player pressed a button
and the sounds were played by this type of gadget. Worked fine - 
the low bandwidth sortof added to the "feel" of the thing.
Your idea of the midi to trigger thing is good, though...



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