[sdiy] Looking for Speech Synth Chips! Can you help me?

[jbv]

> > As I want to design a MIDI controlles speech synthesizer with the old Votrax
> > SC-01 chip
> > I need to get some of these chips for testing and building.
> >
> > Does someone of you have one or more of these chips that he wants to sell?
> > Preferable in Europe but also overseas offers are welcome.
> >
> > Please let me knwo if you can help me.
> >
> > SC-02 / SSI263 chips are also welcome...
> >
>
> The last SC-01s I saw cost me US$100 each. Let me know if you find a cheaper
> source.
>

I've been searching and searching for the last 4 years and
couldn't find any cheaper unit...

BTW the SC02 / SSI263 is more interesting than the SC01
coz it features an input for external sound sources to be
processed by the internal filter bank... But it's impossible
to find...
I even contacted Artic a couple of times, asking for a few
spare units, but they didn't even answered my requests...
Looks like the chip isn't in production anymore and they
keep their stocks for use in their own products...

That's why I started to work on an emulation of that
chip : a VC filer bank, driven by a uC with data about
speech formants (and formant transitions) extracted from
samples with a phase vocoder... When it's done (if it's
ever finished) the thing should be a programable analog
singing machine...

La la la...
JB