AW: [sdiy] Speech Synth Chips sp0256

[Ullrich Peter]

Hallo Tom!

	>The SC-01A does do phoneme to phoneme blending.

	Maybe I did not read this section in the datasheet. But could be true as
the phonemes will be put together very smooth.
	
	>The SC-02 seem to be a little easier to find, but still very rare.
Artic does
	>still sell boards with the SC-02/Artic 263 chip on them.

	But very expensive...
	
	>>       PS: There is still no positive respionse regarding my search
for the
	>> SC-01 chips. Seems that these chips are very rare now. Maybe it is
cheaper to
	>> search for units that have these chip built into them...
	> 
	>Most boxes with those chips in them are collectiable now.  

	This is why I want to keep my speech synthesizer box from 1988 as it is.
For testing and as collectors item. But as the SC-01 is in a socket I could take
it off the board and build it into my own PCB.
	
	>If you havent seen it, http://www.redcedar.com/sc01.htm is a good
source of
	>voice info.  Down at the bottom there is a link to a current production
	>chip which IMHO sounds horrible, the Winbond WTS701.

	I have seen some sites of actual products but they do not really
interest me. Some of the new chips have lots of pins but if you have a closer
look not really more functions or better sounds.

	> http://www.robotprojects.com/voice/voice.htm is a good link if you
want
	>to see what old voice modules had what chip. 

	Yes, I know this site. A really intersting site. I go to this page when
I start a search on Ebay for speech boxes...

	Ciao
	Peter

	http://www.ullrich.at.tt