Re: digispeech

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

MechCD wrote:

>I stumbled upon a large box containing several Digispeech speakers. I think
>they went with some Apple II stuff, but I'm not sure. What exactly are these
>things? They have a built in speaker, a volume knob, what looks like a
>parallel plug (female 25 pin), 2 large headphone connectors and one smaller
>remote jack. I opened the case on one and it has a Digispeech-3 chip by
>Texas Instruments. I can get pics if need or wanted.

Pictures would be interesting.

It sounds like they are TI Linear Predictive Coding speech synthesis
devices, based on the same family of chips that were in the TI
Speak'n'Spell.

The Echo speech synthesizers for the Apple II also used this family
of chips, and the speech synthesis strings may be compatible.

I'm curious about the 25-pin connector, though--that makes me
think they may be designed for the parallel port of a PC.

-michael

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