[gui-talk] identifying a speech synthesizer

[Mike Arrigo]

The sounding board and speakout were definitely very responsive. The 
main issue I had with the sounding board was all the resources it used. 
It needed a base address and an interupt, and used the computer itself 
to do the TTS translation, actually the artic cards did too. When it 
came to synthesizers and resources, I think the double talk PC was the 
best one, it just used a port address, and you didn't have to load any 
drivers, just your screen reader. Also, all of the tts processing was 
done by the card. I think the accent also did the TTS translation on 
the card. There may have been reasons I don't know about why using an 
interupt and relying on the computer itself for the tts translation was 
better, but from a users perspective, the double talk and accent method 
seems better.
Original message:
> I forgot to mention, this chip was used in the Accent, Artic, Braille n 
> Speak and of course my favorites, the Sounding Board and Speak-Out.

> Dan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gui-talk [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Dan 
> Weirich via gui-talk
> Sent: Wednesday, September 3, 2014 1:43 PM
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> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] identifying a speech synthesizer

> The Votrax SC02 and SSI 263 chips were the same integrated circuit 
> internally but had different manufacturer markings and part numbers.

> Dan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gui-talk [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Pamela 
> Dominguez via gui-talk
> Sent: Wednesday, September 3, 2014 1:25 PM
> To: Steve Jacobson; Discussion of the Graphical User Interface, GUI 
> Talk Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] identifying a speech synthesizer

> I only saw a stand-alone votrex that you hook up to the computer, not a 
> card or board that goes in it like Artic was.  Votrex was the first 
> synthesizer I learned on when I learned wordperfekt 4.2 at the 
> Lighthouse.  Pam.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Jacobson via gui-talk
> Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2014 11:46 AM
> To: Rasmussen, Lloyd via gui-talk
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] identifying a speech synthesizer

> 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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