[sdiy] TTS chips

[Metrophage]

I have made phoneme babblers out of advertising company people! I mean
out of Speak N Spells. The phonemes are on there, with some support
circuitry and i/o. Each of my units I have kept in its original case,
and fit the mods inside. A couple of the most obvious things to try are
pitch-bend and phoneme-looping, the points on the board to tweak vary
with the version of the PCB.

Mine have been the most extensively modded SNS's which I have seen and
/ or played. Often I will line the left side with on-off or on-off-on
switches, a rotary switch on the right of the handle, and a pitch pot
on the left of the handle. Pitch can be controlled via Vactrol also.

I had to sell my Speaks when I was in NYC in exchange for monkey-tokens
to fool the natives with. I have been thinking of modding the last two
I have, one which I had done but disassembled, and a mark-1 unit with
(flimsy) plastic buttons instead of membrane switches. Once I can get
my voltage-controlled jams on!
CJ



--- Anthony Davis <swangthosehips at yahoo.com> wrote:

> anyone know where i can find a few old SP0256 chips (or the
> equivalent)
>  
> i want a phoneme babbler!! would be the best module ever i imagine.
> anyone done this?


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