Plogue Chipspeech

[davidv@plogue]

Three round-button Speak'n'spells? Crivvens, they're rather hard to get get hold of, much more expensive than membrane ones.

The 'Buttons' speak and spell are not that hard to come by, there are always a bunch on eBay at any given time. The grey Japanese one however, I imported from Japan at a whooping price tag

Got a SpeakJet in there somewhere?

Afraid not, a Speakjet is a modern (2004) device made to sound old

[whyterabbyt]

Three round-button Speak'n'spells? Crivvens, they're rather hard to get get hold of, much more expensive than membrane ones.

The 'Buttons' speak and spell are not that hard to come by, there are always a bunch on eBay at any given time.

<peeks at ebay> Ah. Looks like membrane ones are much more expensive than they used to be. A few years back when I got mine button models were going for 2-3 times the price of a membrane model, now they seem to be fairly similarly priced.

The grey Japanese one however, I imported from Japan at a whooping price tag

I dont doubt it!

Got a SpeakJet in there somewhere?

Afraid not, a Speakjet is a modern (2004) device made to sound old [/quote]

Fair enough

[MaF]

Reading about S.A.M. for the C64 in this thread made me want to mention that there was a S.A.M. for the ATARI 8 Bit computers as well. But a video on youtube showed that both really sound the same and S.A.M. was available for the Apple II + Lisa as well.
Anyway, I'm looking forward to chipspeech and chipsounds 2.0

[davidv@plogue]

S.A.M. was indeed pretty much the same on those platforms. The Apple II version needed a DAC card to be added to the system. There is a guy making modern versions of that (I got one, didn't try it yet). While of course the C64 version used the $D418 4bit volume-as-a-DAC trick to do so.

Cheers.

[tonedef71]

Just how serious are we with the hardware research for chipspeech?

http://ploguechipsounds.blogspot.ca/201 ... art-1.html

Does anyone remember the Magic Voice module for the Commodore 64 home computer?



I remember how great it worked with the Wizard of Wor game cartridge.

[Mivo]

I don't recall the module, but I most certainly remember the game! Could only play it at a friend's house, because I had an Amstrad CPC, which no one else had.

(Gosh, we're old.)

[kbaccki]

OMG Wizard of Wor... Fantastic... I think I had that on the 2600... I remember being blown away on the C64 with the "Accolade presents..." and the sampled engine rev... 4 bits of ecstasy...

[tonedef71]

The Magic Voice speech module had a pre-programmed vocabulary of 235 utterances spoken with a pleasant female voice (pre-Siri):

A, ADD, AFTER, AGAIN, ALL, AM, AN, AND, ANSWER, ANY, APOSTROPHE, ARE, AS, AT, B, BAD, BE, BECAUSE, BLACK, BLUE, BROWN, BUT, BUY, BY, BYE, C, CAN, COLOR, COME, COMMAND, COMMODORE, COMPUTER, CONTROL, CORRECT, CURSOR, CYAN, D, DARK, DID, DISK, DIVIDE, DIVIDED, DO, DOES, DONE, DOWN, E, EACH, EIGHT, ELEVEN, END, ENTER, EQUALS, ER, ERROR, EST, EVERY, F, FIF, FIND, FIRST, FIVE, FOR, FOUR, FROM, G, GAME, GET, GIVE, GOOD, GREEN, GREY, H, HAS, HAVE, HE, HEAR, HELP, HERE, HI, HIGH, HOUR, HOW, HUNDRED, I, IF, IN, ING, IS, IT, J, K, KEY, KNOW, L, LARGE, LEFT, LESS, LETTER, LIGHT, LIKE, LOAD, M, MANY, MAY, ME, MILLION, MINUS, MORE, MOST, MY, N, NAME, NEXT, NINE, NO, NOT, NOW, NUMBER, O, OF, OFF, OH, ON, ONE, OR, ORANGE, OUR, OUT, OVER, P, PLAY, PLEASE, PLUS, POINT, PRESENTS, PRESS, PROGRAM, PURPLE, PUT, Q, QUESTION, R, READ, READY, RED, REMAINDER, RIGHT, RUN, S, SAME, SAVE, SAY, SECOND, SEE, SEND, SET, SEVEN, SHE, (SILENCE), SIX, SMALL, SORRY, SSSS, START, STOP, SUBTRACT, SYMBOL, T, TAKE, TALK, TAPE, TEEN, TEN, TERRIFIC, TH, THAN, THANK, THAT, THE, THEIR, THEN, THERE, THEY'RE, THING, THIR, THIRD, THIS, THOUSAND, THREE, THUH, TIMES, TO, TOO, TRY, TURN, TWELVE, TWENTY, TWO, TY, U, UH, UNTIL, UP, USE, V, VERY, W, WAIT, WANT, WAS, WE, WEIGHT, WERE, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, WHICH, WHITE, WHO, WHY, WITH, WON, WORD, WRITE, WRONG, X, Y, YELLOW, YES, YOU'RE, YOU, YOUR, Z, ZERO

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6chqYBita8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTONhBLcAEQ

[davidv@plogue]

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[davidv@plogue]

We have the magic voice unit (see our gear photo), it might appear in a subsequent release of chipspeech.

Basically its another PARCOR/LPC voice chip (Toshiba T6721A), and we already have plenty of that as is

[tonedef71]

We have the magic voice unit (see our gear photo), it might appear in a subsequent release of chipspeech.

Ah, yes! Its box is hidden in plain sight amongst the "Where's Waldo?" of colorful speech synthesis gear. I hope it does find its way into a release of Chipspeech.

Basically its another PARCOR/LPC voice chip (Toshiba T6721A), and we already have plenty of that as is

Wow! I did not realize how common that chip was. Its debut must have spawned a whole market of affordable speech synthesis products.

[davidv@plogue]

Hi

I know I should give more updates and estimates, just so busy, too much to make demo tracks
(which will appear sooner than later)
What I can give you however is a glimpse of what you can achieve in 2 minutes live with a MIDI keyboard and a few knobs.

Speak And Spell (TMS5XXX) style LPC data bending:
http://plogue.com/davidv/chipspeech/LiveBending.mp3

And SP0256 data bending (Data from a prototype Car Phone system that probably never saw the light of day)
http://plogue.com/davidv/chipspeech/Cre ... ending.mp3

more to come...

[Naenyn]

Sounding good, David! I have a feeling you'll be getting my money.

[tooneba]

Sounds like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHGe4LsGTlQ

[dformd]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6XFKp5IJaQ