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From: RCH@cup.portal.com (Ric C Helton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Speech Synthesis Circuit
Message-ID: <18383@cup.portal.com>
Date: 15 May 89 08:50:13 GMT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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On a closeout at Radio Shack, I purchased the two speech synthesis
circuits (SP0256 Narroator Speech Processor and CTS256A-AL2 Code-
to-speech Processing Chip) commonly used to build speech synth
units for small computer applications.  I got the chips both for
under $10, and now I need to build the unit.

The April 1985 Analog magazine has a project for building a unit 
that plugs into the Atari 800/XL/XE's joystick ports 0&1. It is
a good hardware article, but I have seen somewhere a design for
a circuit that uses the RS-232 port instead. Does anyone know
where I could find this project?

My idea is to hook the unit up with a y-cable to my modem, and 
have it speak the text it receives while BBSing and chatting.
Heard of any Atari app's for this?

Thanks for any reponse!
 -Ric Helton      RCH@cup.portal.com
 -PO Box 2133, Athens, GA 30612-0133