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From: vail@tegra.COM (Johnathan Vail)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Speech Synthesizer chipsets?
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Date: 26 Feb 91 16:04:54 GMT
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In-reply-to: rustyh@epsl.umd.edu's message of 20 Feb 91 19:41:17 GMT



In article <1991Feb20.194117.638@wam.umd.edu> rustyh@epsl.umd.edu (Rusty Haddock) writes:

   Check out  the 'speech stick' from Dallas Semiconductor. Its a pcb about
   4" x 3/4" and stores and replays speech. It stores about a minute (more
   with an accompanying memory board) and sections can be organised like files.
   Abt $120 in one offs.
   Its designed for 'tele-servicing' (you dial up you electronics box and ask
   for a status report)
   Of course Dallas also sells the chips that form the heart of the board.


One of the devices I "invented" (you know, you think these things up
and then find someone beat you to it...) were electronic post-it
notes.  Save a few seconds of speech in a cheap little device and
leave it around for yourself or a friend.

A couple of years ago a friend of mine had one that he got from OKI at
a trade show.  I think it was a keychain, the actual unit a little
fatter than a watch.  It stored something like 30 seconds of
intelligable speech.  It had a couple of buttons on it and could save
several messages.

A neat little toy but I have yet to see one since.

jv

"Somebody needs to do something--it's just incredibly pathetic that
       it has to be *us*."  -- Jerry Garcia
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