[sdiy] Texas Instruments LPC Speech Chips

[Adam (synthDIY)]

> On 2 Sep 2026, at 09:44, brianw <brianw at audiobanshee.com> wrote:
> 
> Keep in mind that the NeXT hardware models all have a Motorola 56000 DSP, as well as the m68k.
> 
> I remember rsynth, but I do not recall whether it took advantage of the DSP.
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> I just re-read your email, and see that you ported rsynth to NeXTSTEP, so I guess you would remember if you used any of the DSP resources.
> 
> Brian Willoughby
> 
> p.s. I'm still trying to remember the name of the NeXTstep software that modeled the human vocal tract, with a graphical depiction that you could manipulate on the screen with the mouse in real time to synthesize vocalizations (but, alas, words were a bit too complex to recreate with mouse drags). I think it was called GRASP. Something like Graphical Representation Audio Synthesis something-er-other.
> 


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> On Sep 1, 2026, at 5:03 AM, Ben Stuyts wrote:
>> That reminds me of an old project I ported to NeXTSTEP back in 1994. It was called rsynth, an early open-source text-to-speech system that converts text to phonemes. It generates speech using a Klatt-style parametric formant synthesizer.
>> 
>> So, certainly not a discrete solution, but it was very small and fairly intelligible. Reminded me a bit of the Votrax and TI voices. I wonder if it could run on a modern microcontroller at reasonable speed. My NeXTcube had a 25 MHz 68040, and it wasn’t a real time experience...
>> 
>> I see it has been updated as recent as 2005 ;-) https://sourceforge.net/projects/rsynth/
>> 
>> Ben
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