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Article #19056Re: Question about speech Synthesisor
From: John Moore
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 1988 18:46
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 1988 18:46
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For all who are wondering about the radio shack chip, it is produced by the folks who used to be General Instrument Semiconductors (and have recently done an LBO and changed the name to Microchip Technologies). Check with them (Chandler, Arizona - 602-963-7373) or a rep. The chip is an SP0256-AL2 and they do have specs available (although the writing is not very good). I have used this chip in one product and am not very happy with it - the speech quality is poor making it hard to distinguish certain words (ONE vs DONE, for example). However, it is widely available and easy to interface. I have not used the text-to-speech micro that they sell as a companion to it. -- John Moore (NJ7E) hao!noao!mcdsun!nud!anasaz!john (602) 870-3330 (day or evening) The opinions expressed here are obviously not mine, so they must be someone else's.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!ncar!noao!mcdsun!nud!anasaz!john From: john@anasaz.UUCP (John Moore) Newsgroups: sci.electronics,comp.lsi Subject: Re: Question about speech Synthesisor Message-ID: <1002@anasaz.UUCP> Date: 25 Apr 88 18:46:08 GMT References: <732@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> <3862@cbterra.ATT.COM> <3265@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM> Reply-To: john@anasaz.UUCP (John Moore) Distribution: na Organization: Anasazi Inc, Phoenix AZ Lines: 14 Summary: The chip is from General Instruments (SP0256-AL2)