voice synthesizer

[KA4HJH]

>> > Slightly related... does anyone have some samples of the phonemes
>>(sp?) used
>> > in speech synthesisers, preferably some really artificial sounding
>>ones like
>> > a TI Speak 'n' Spell?

As I recall (poorly), TI's Linear Predictive Coding wasn't PCM (sampling)
per se but a kind of analysis/resynthesis. Either it couldn't do an
arbitrary combination of phonemes, or it could do combinations that it had
in firmware a lot better.

This would explain why you never saw LPC cards for personal computers (lots
of SC-01 stuff instead), even though they did sell the chipsets and
evaluation and development systems. Never got the whole scoop on this.

Terry Bowman, KA4HJH
"The Mac Doctor"