Re: digispeech

["MechCD" <mechcd@bluebottle.com>]

Heres the pics: http://xmechcd.tripod.com/digi/digi.htm
I'll try and scan the board itself tomorrow.

I have no clue what they were off of. It would be great if I could hook one
up to one of my Apple IIe's. I tried doing several searches on "digispeech"
and come up empty handed. I assumed they went with the Apple IIe's because
they were in the same box. I may be wrong though, there was a large
assortment of PC disks in the same box (including win 95 on 3.5 inch
floppies).

The wires coming from the 25 pin connector are labeled TP1-TP7. I would
guess it hooks up to a PC parralel port, but I'm not about to try it until I
can find some more info.

This board says 1992 on the back, so that is in the 486 to Pentium era in
the PC world. I remember having a normal 8 bit sound card in our 486 back in
'91 (I think).

"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message
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> 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.
>