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Re: Votrax chip SC01/SC02

Jeff Blakeney wrote:

  To: Michael J. Mahon
On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 22:07:33 -0700, Michael J. Mahon wrote:



Allen Bong wrote:


Can the IIgs sound chip be programmed to produce speech?


Yes, but only by using software to synthesize the waveforms and
letting the Ensoniq chip "play" them.



It is a lot easier to produce speech on the IIgs if you have the Talking
Tools from the ByteWorks installed.  Unfortunately, I think that is one
of the titles that Mike Westerfield couldn't include on the Opus ][ CDs
as it was based upon code that he licenced from elsewhere.


Yes, those tools do the text-to-phoneme conversion, the phoneme
transitions, and then render them as waveforms for the Ensoniq
to play back.

-michael

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