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From: pec@necntc.nec.com (Paul Cohen)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Digital Sample/Playback machines?
Keywords: Who, what, where, howmuch?
Message-ID: <28361@necntc.nec.com>
Date: 9 Feb 89 22:04:13 GMT
References: <11180@shamash.cdc.com>
Reply-To: pec@necntc.UUCP (Paul Cohen)
Organization: NEC Electronics Inc.  Natick, MA 01760
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>jwabik@shamash.cdc.com (Jeff Wabik) writes:

> I'm trying to find a "box" that will serially attach to a host machine
> (be it a PC, or a Sun, or ..) that does digital sampling and playback.

NEC Electronics sells a card that fits into a PC, called the EB-SPEECH1 
board.  It is used by NEC Electronics as a demonstration and evaluation
vehicle for its uPD7730 speech compression device, but it could easily 
be used for other purposes.  As an added bonus, it does speech recognition.

The board allows for three different storage formats: 64 KB/sec.
PCM speech and a choice of 32 KB/sec. or 24 KB/sec. ADPCM speech.  The
software that comes with the board limits you to about 30 seconds of
speech but I suspect that you could extend this by writing your own 
control software.  The software that comes with the board also includes
some speech editing capability.

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