[sdiy] TTS chips

[Dave Magnuson]

Have you ever documented your modifications?   A friend of mine wants me to 
repair a turntable for him, and offered a Speak and Spell and a Speak and 
Math as payment...   If you had any hints to get me started, that would be 
great.    It could save me quite a bit of circuit bending time!!!!   My 
friend has a modded speak and spell nicked named the "Spank and Spell"... 
and all I have to say is it whispers the voices of demons.  Tons of fun


Dave



At 09:38 AM 9/11/04, Metrophage wrote:

>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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