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dnny
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 Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 4:50 am Post subject:
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Hi
i just found this great looking SpeakJet Development Board by Tigerbotics. it uses the SpeakJet chip.
| Quote: | | The SpeakJet is a completely self-contained, single-chip voice and complex sound synthesizer. It uses a mathematical sound algorithm to control an internal 5 channel sound synthesizer to generate "on- the-fly" unlimited-vocabulary speech synthesis and complex sound generation. The SpeakJet is programmed with 72 speech sound elements called allophones, 43 predefined sound effects and 12 DTMF touch Tones. Through the selection of these sounds and in combination with the control of the Pitch, Rate, Bend and Volume parameters, the user has the ability to produce unlimited phrases and sound effect with thousands of variations at any time. The SpeakJet can be controlled simultaneously by voltage changes on any one of its 8 input lines and by a single serial output line from a CPU. |
the board and the chip costs on Parallax $55
but the board is intended to be controlled whit computer - so it just be easier to use some text to speech programs. - but i guess it could be controlled by some analog voltage sources - and ignore the computer, right?
so have anyone tried this speakjet chip? how is it ?
there are also this module that speaks as soon as you have plugged your PS2 keyboard to it.
but its expensive and there are not so much controls .
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| Funny, I was about to ask YOU if you've tried it. If it only has 72 allophones, I wouldn't expect it to be any better than AnalogX's SayIt program. But then, it's a good deal if you want hardware to add to a DIY synth. I'm sure you can find audio samples somewhere. You wouldn't believe the lengths people go to get free synthetic speech samples. |
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dnny
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| opg wrote: | | If it only has 72 allophones, I wouldn't expect it to be any better than AnalogX's SayIt program. But then, it's a good deal if you want hardware to add to a DIY synth. |
i got interested on this just because there is no bending possibilities on program based speech synthesis - ok maybe there are, but im not a programmer guy. so i would like to have this unit and bend it to make weird noises. something similar as the classic Speak & Spell - kind of thingy.
i will write to Santa. and hope he will bring me one of these
there are some sound samples . . .
speakjet sample
speakjet sample 2
speakjet sample 3
those sounds are made whit speakjet chip and the PSIM-1 module from Synthmodules.com
i really like it - so Santa if you reed this you know where i live
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| Those are some nice samples! GO FOR IT! |
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This sounds totally wicked dnny. Thanks for the post/link !
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sapteka
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SpeakJet can produces robotic sound. I have tried it using PIC 16F877 microcontroller. It's work. See more about this at http://www.sapteka.net/pic16f877andspeakjet.htm
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 sapteka
Great to have you here.
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Firefox can't find the server at www.sapteka.net. 
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nor does IE6...
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etaoin
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They probably time-out. The connection to both the DNS-servers and the web host is extremely slow.
I have 8% now in about 5 minutes (timeouts switched off). I'm downloading it here: http://www.dompselaar.org/sapteka/pic16f877andspeakjet.htm
It's not complete yet. I'll change this message here when it is.
[edit] I think it's more or less done.
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| Etaoin wrote: | | (timeouts switched off). |
how did you achieve that?
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| fonik wrote: | OT
| Etaoin wrote: | | (timeouts switched off). |
how did you achieve that? |
I'm using wget directly on my server; what you see is the actual download.
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