Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uwm.edu!linac!att!pacbell.com!ucsd!sdcc6!sdcc13!gbell From: gbell@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Greg Bell) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: cheap text-to-speech board Message-ID: <17745@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> Date: 24 Mar 91 01:34:35 GMT References: <5537@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> Sender: news@sdcc6.ucsd.edu Organization: University of California, San Diego Lines: 21 In article , danr@ais.org (Daniel Romanchik) writes: > Anyone know where I can find a stand-alone voice synthesizer? > Try RC Systems at (206) 672-6909 (Phone/Fax). They make a text-to-speech board that is "Less than $100 in OEM quantities". I've heard it over the phone and the quality is very good (especially compared to the GI allophone chips). They basically did an A-D storage of all phonemes and stored it on an on-board EPROM. Not as easy as it sounds, because according to the guy I talked to, they spent years perfecting the phonemes and code (interpolation algorithms etc). Anyway, call them and ask for a demo over the phone. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Who: Greg Bell Address: gbell@ucsd What: EE hobbyist and major Where: UC San Diego -----------------------------------------------------------------------------