[sdiy] TTS chips

[Bob Devries]

The two chips mentioned, were used by tandy/radio shack in the speech/sound
pak for their Color computer.Cat no 26-3144.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: <mirwin at qouest.net>
To: "Tim Johnson" <ifixaudio at hotmail.com>
Cc: <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 8:54 AM
Subject: Re: [sdiy] TTS chips


> Those SP0256 chips were made by General Instruments in the early
> 1980's... Radio Shack sold 2 versions - one was the "make it say
> anything" SP0256-AL2 with allophones in internal ROM... the other was
> the "talking clock" version which told the time, played wake-up tunes,
> and told you to "hurry up, please!"... Radio Shack also sold a ASCII to
>  speech controller for the AL2 version (this was actually one of the
> early NMOS PIC microcontrollers, designed by GI, still have one kicking
> around somewhere). Future Electronics also sold these chips at the time.
>
> Had one hooked up to a Sinclair ZX-81, great fun.. especially when when
> it went into a loop and kept on repeating. The places that supply parts
> for arcade game repair sometimes list the SP0256.
> Regards, Mike
>