Xref: utzoo sci.electronics:2784 comp.lsi:418 Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!gatech!udel!rochester!cornell!batcomputer!sun.soe.clarkson.edu!bkc From: bkc@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Brad Clements) Newsgroups: sci.electronics,comp.lsi Subject: Question about speech Synthesisor Message-ID: <732@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> Date: 13 Apr 88 23:40:28 GMT Sender: bkc@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Reply-To: bkc@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Brad Clements) Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY Lines: 16 I just returned from my local Radio Shack store, where I was looking over their speech synthesisor and controller chip. I didn't bye the set because they require a 3.12 Mhz and 10 Mhz crystal, both of which would have to be special ordered and might take over a month to get. What I'd like to know is if anyone has experience with these chips. How well does it sound and how well is the text converted to speech. Has anyone incorporated a 'exception EPROM' with their own special words to alonomes (?) conversions etc? Lastly, does anyone know where I can find these chips or similar construction materials (kits even) for less or sooner? Any information would be appreciated, I am, after all, a basement experimentor and not well versed in the microprocesser field.