[sdiy] speech synthesizer

[Brett Maddaford]

Have you considered a speakjet chip? I've built one onto a carrier PCB that
has 8 trigger inputs that can be programmed with whole words or individual
speech parts. Its lots of fun and can be programmed quite a bit via a serial
PC interface quite easily.
I have on\off switches on the triggers at the moment but was considering
getting one of the highlyliquid midi\swicth outputs here
http://www.highlyliquid.com/ and using that to sequence the speakjet.

B

-----Original Message-----
From: synth-diy-bounces at dropmix.xs4all.nl
[mailto:synth-diy-bounces at dropmix.xs4all.nl] On Behalf Of BR
Sent: Friday, 29 June 2007 04:41 
To: gino wong
Cc: Synth-DIY
Subject: Re: [sdiy] speech synthesizer

Cool, thanks! and to everyone who responded.  I've
circuit-bent a Speak n Spell before, and that was a
pretty fun and easy way to play with speech synthesis.
 Since it's also by Texas Instruments, and more
modern, the module I have probably isn't much better,
or different, now that I think about it.  So maybe its
not worth the effort..

--- gino wong <wonggster at gmail.com> wrote:

> I would suggest you go get a Dectalk board or
> dectalk express used or
> even cheaper an  echotalk , they are well
> documented.  I used an
> original standalone dectalk for many years and all I
> ever had to worry
> about was programming it in musically useful way. 
> These things are
> plentiful cheap and underused.
> 
> On 6/27/07, BR <phonotron at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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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