[sdiy] speech synthesizer

[Travis Shire]

The chip that handles the speech synthesis is probably a "votrax" sc-01. It
was used in early arcade games that had speech such as Gorf and Q-Bert.
This page has a datasheet and program guide:
http://www.riana.com/electronics/sc01/index.html




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> I bought a speech synthesizer module from a TI-99 home
> computer on ebay a month or two ago, thinking I would
> try to make it into a standalone, bent instrument...
> but I'm having a hard time determining where the power
> and speaker should be hooked up to it.  I tried
> contacting Texas Instruments, to try and get ahold of
> a schematic, but they told me their computer designs
> had been sold to Hewlett Packard.  ..So I contacted HP
> as well, and they said they didn't keep such records.
> I doubt this is true, but no one I could reach on the
> phone was able to help.  So, do any of you perhaps
> know of some tell-tale signs that would help me find
> the ins and outs of the circuit-board?
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