Didn't mean to start a flame.
I'm not a scientist, but I've played one at work in the past... PCM through a PC
speaker is painful enough to force confessions from hardened criminals.
My pint is that the AN1x and its buddies don't have the programmability to do
much exciting stuff.
Ed Edwards
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Giblet [mailto:phw@...]
> Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 8:35 AM
> To: AN1x-list@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: We All die (was Re: [AN1x] re: atmospheric choir
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> > Here Giblet has gone and poked his face right out of the window into the
> > fog.
> >
> > "You" (who? scientists maybe?) can make "anything" (what? methane, a Casio
> > watch, maybe your car horn?) with a programmable 'beep' (like your car?)
> > simulate speech (what language?).
>
> 'You' == anyone who knows how to modulate speech with an oscillator. There
> are lots of white-papers and books on the subject. A PC speaker is driven by
> a square wave generator whose only programmable parameters are duty cycle
> and frequency. If one can make THAT talk, then one can make a dog's
> squeak-toy talk if one is persistent enough.
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> No algorithm is required at the an1x end -- only at the PC end.
>
> While the interface to an AN1x's oscillators is indirect and primitive
> compared with the PC's directly-programmable oscillator, it can't be all
> THAT difficult to synthesize short waveform sequences on a PC and transfer
> those to the synth. I've played with speech synthesis under DOS (I ∗am∗ a
> scientist) on a PC but maybe I should shut up until I actually DO it on an
> an1x... Don't hold your breath on that - it just isn't worth the effort.
>
> There are several TTS examples available on the web, in assembly and C
> languages. One can use them to observe the waveforms of those words one
> wishes to duplicate on the an1x and 'simply' duplicate the waveform. (What
> could be simpler, eh?)
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> This would be an interesting exercise, but a total waste of time. A Triton,
> or any other sampler, can talk its fool head off right out of the box.
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