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Wes, RC Systems has a great speech synthesizer, but it's a little pricey. http://www.rcsys.com/ Good luck and have fun, - Nick - > Wes Johnston wrote: > > Can anyone recommend a Text to Speech chipset? I am fishing for > options other than the SPO-256 and CTS-256 pair. > > Thanks > Wes

Sensory Inc. has some interesting chips - they can do some speech synthesis, as well as recognition. http://www.sensoryinc.com -Randy Glenn E-Mail: spam_OUTPICxpertTakeThisOuTyahoo.com Web: http://i.am/PICxpert -----Original Message----- From: pic microcontroller discussion list [.....PICLISTKILLspam@spam@MITVMA.MIT.EDU]On Behalf Of Wes Johnston Sent: Monday, January 24, 2000 6:37 PM To: PICLISTKILLspamMITVMA.MIT.EDU Subject: [PICLIST] Text to Speech Can anyone recommend a Text to Speech chipset? I am fishing for options other than the SPO-256 and CTS-256 pair. Thanks Wes __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com

Where did you find the SPO-256 and CTS-256 chipset? Keith Causey .....ffightKILLspam.....geocities.com Can anyone recommend a Text to Speech chipset? I am fishing for options other than the SPO-256 and CTS-256 pair. Thanks Wes

the spo-256 and cts-256 were made by general instruments back in the middle 80's... a company called BG micro in texas may still sell a serial card with them on it.... it was about $90. Wes - NOTE NEW EMAIL ADDRESS EraseMEkd4rdbspam_OUTTakeThisOuTqsl.net http://www.qsl.net/kd4rdb Where am I? http://map.aprs.net/kd4rdb-9 http://map.aprs.net/kd4rdb-10 {Original Message removed}

On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 10:09:13AM -0700, Keith Causey wrote: > Where did you find the SPO-256 and CTS-256 chipset? I'll chip in (!) here and mention that Radio Shack was selling these chipsets many years ago. I even went and bought one. I could never get it to work reliably over the serial interface because it did not generate XON/XOFF properly. I remember fiddling with it for long hours, and I found that it generated an XON character for every character you sent to it, until some internal buffer was full, then it stopped sending XON. Does anyone have a data sheet on these chips? I was following Radio Shack's experimenter's data sheet, which may have been abbreviated. I'd love to get this thing working. -- James Cameron quozlspam_OUTus.netrek.org http://quozl.us.netrek.org/

The following link has some information on the SPO-256 chip including PDF's of the GI and Tandy spec sheets. Good Luck, Preston http://www.esi.us.es/~melus/gwlhw0j.html {Original Message removed}

Thank you Preston, I haven't seen those data sheets for almost 15 years. The project actually began as a text to speech cartridge for the Magnavox Video Game system from North American Phillips on an 8048 derivative. Very cool - The Magnavox system had a keyboard and a character generator for the television output. Once one typed in a message and hit "Enter" it would talk. We then modified the technology and rewrote it in the 7000 series from TI for Radio Shack, which is the chip set you describe. On the other hand, I am having a tough time believing that there aren't 20 low cost T2S chip sets available that do a better job of talking - The only utterances that were instantly recognizable were "curse words". (A characteristic I have always attributed more to psychology than to electronics.) Tom Mariner {Original Message removed}