On Thu, 14 Feb 2013, Steve Nickolas wrote:
Steve Ciarcia had a "Circuit Cellar" in Byte, I think it was 1978, where he showed how to give a computer some speech output. He did it the simple way, sample the words, then play them back. He was obviously using a fairly low sampling rate.On Thu, 14 Feb 2013, Michael J. Mahon wrote:Phoneme synthesis with the Ensoniq would only require about 64 short prerecorded phonemes and standard phoneme synthesis software--quite simple, actually, but having the usual "robotic" speech quality.I almost wonder if a GS could do something like Vocaloid or if that's pushing the cpu too far.
The problem with that was storage space. It was for an 8bit computer, so RAM was limited to 64K. I can't remember if he was using a floppy drive, but even then that was limited compared to what's available today, 350K at tops.
And that wsa the limiting factor, not the CPU but the lack of storage sapce.
Michael