Re: Votrax chip SC01/SC02

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

zwsdotcom@gmail.com wrote:
> On Aug 27, 7:13 pm, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
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> > The SC-02, more commonly known as the SSI-263, is a phoneme- or
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> 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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