[gui-talk] identifying a speech synthesizer

[Mike Arrigo]

I don't know if this will help, here is another clip, I guess you could 
change the pitch and tone of the voice, because this demo sounds a bit 
different.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eI3oQVK7iA
Original message:
> I used a PSS once but it didn't sound at all like this to me. I always
> said the PSS sounded both bored and permanently smiling at the same
> time, but it sounded less mechanical than this example.

> On Wed, Sep 03, 2014 at 10:46:09AM -0500, Steve Jacobson via gui-talk wrote:
> Lloyd,

> Didn't some of the old Votrax synthesizers use another chip?  I'm 
> thinking of the old Votrax Personal Speech
> System which I used for a while in the 1980's.  This reminded me of 
> that synthesizer.  I remember that Votrax did
> have a board that used the SSI263 chip as well.

> Best regards,

> Steve Jacobson

> On Wed, 3 Sep 2014 10:17:13 -0400, Rasmussen, Lloyd via gui-talk wrote:

>> This does not sound like an Echo synthesizer at all.  I expect it is 
>> some kind of Votrax synthesizer that
> predates the SSI263.

>> Lloyd Rasmussen, Senior Staff Engineer
>> National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
>> Library of Congress   202-707-0535
>> http://www.loc.gov/nls
>> The preceding opinions are my own, and do not necessarily reflect those 
>> of the Library of Congress, NLS.


>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: gui-talk [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Mike 
>> Arrigo via gui-talk
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2014 9:56 AM
>> To: gui-talk at nfbnet.org
>> Subject: [gui-talk] identifying a speech synthesizer

>> Hey everyone, saw this youtube video of the hro robot from the 1980's.
>> I would have loved to have had one of these, I think only 1000 were
>> made, and for their time, they did quite a bit. Does anyone know what
>> speech chip this is, I'm guessing it was either the echo or the ssi263
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8dUL9qgU1M


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