Newton

[Don]

Joost van de Griek wrote:
> On 8/10/06 4:37 PM, Don wrote:
> 
>>> There is even a speech recognition software, so grab you Newt and say
>>> 'Comuter, give me the news channel'. Not to mention the awsome sound programm
>>> wich can even be made to speak.
>> Well, you can "speak" with a one-bit D/AC running at ~20Ks/s so that's not
>> particularly impressive  :>  (e.g., old pinball machines generated speech by
>> bit-banging with a 1MHz 680x).
> 
> But did they do text-to-speech?

Actually, depending on how you implement the synthesizer itself,
TTS on a 1MHz 6809 isn't hard  :>

> You'll want to go here: <http://www.newtontalk.net/>
> And here: <http://www.unna.org/>

Thanks!  I've been digging through the UNNA site for the past
few days.  Poorly documented, unfortunately.  I'll have a
look at the other site as well...