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From: brian@ucsd.Edu (Brian Kantor)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Speech Synthesizer chipsets?
Message-ID: <28283@ucsd.Edu>
Date: 15 Feb 91 21:31:47 GMT
Organization: The Avant-Garde of the Now, Ltd.
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I'm working on an application that requires a modest vocabulary of
stored speech for telemetry - typically some electronics jargon, words
like "alarm", "battery", "off", "on", and the numbers.

In the past I've used the Digitalker chipset, with both vocabulary
sets that were available for it, but some of the words I would have
liked to have just weren't in the vocabularies, and I don't think I
can record my own for it.

I don't mind recording and digitizing my own words if I can do it
cheaply.  The application is an embedded controller that has no bulk
storage (i.e., ROM only, no disk) and only needs to have telephone-
quality speech.

I'd really like something that would speak a whole word or phrase
without any significant attention from the control processor - with the
Digitalker, you just select the word address and strobe it, and it
signals when it's done.

Suggestions?   MAIL to me and I'll summarize for the group.

	Brian Kantor	UC San Diego
	brian@ucsd.edu	ucsd!brian	BRIAN@UCSD