Re: Votrax chip SC01/SC02

[Allen Bong <allenbsf6502@gmail.com>]

On Aug 29, 3:28 am, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
> zwsdot...@gmail.com wrote:
> > On Aug 27, 7:13 pm, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
>
> >>The SC-02, more commonly known as the SSI-263, is a phoneme- or
>
> > Where is the Votrax SC-02 more commonly known as the SSI-263? :)
>
> Votrax apparently had SSI manufacture the chip for them, and SSI
> took it to market as the SSI-263.  I've never seen a chip labelled
> SC-02 (though they may be inside Votrax products), but I've seen
> lots of SSI-263 chips.  There are still folks selling old stock
> SSI-263's.
>
> I have seen several SC-01's, but they don't seem to be available
> any more.
>
> > This is why the General Instruments SPO256A-AL2 allophonic speech
> > processor was a better pick; it had the companion CTS256A-AL2
> > processor IC that turned an English ASCII stream into an allophone
> > stream.
>
> Making a minimum 2-chip solution--a bad match for a microcomputer
> that already has a processor and memory available.
>
> Hmmm, no one's mentioned the TI LPC chip yet...   ;-)
>
> -michael
>
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In the game "Dung Beetles"  by Bob Bishops (???), he was able to
pronounce the phase "We've got you!" without any extra hardware.  How
did he do it?

Allen Bong