Digitalker, SP0256, and SC-01 speech chips (was Re: Digitalker Information)

[Ethan Dicks]

On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 01:33:42AM -0500, Roy J. Tellason wrote:
> On Sunday 03 February 2008 16:54, Scanning wrote:
> > Pete,
> >
> > The SP0256 had the best sounding speech I think ( it uses twice as many
> > speech sounds ( 128 allophones ? )  as the SC-01 only had 64 phonemes )).

59 Allophones plus 6 pauses, according to the datasheet.

> How about the computer on Star Trek?  Or the one on Andromeda?  Sexy female 
> voice would be good,  particularly...   :-)

Those are human voices, not even machine sequenced - just voice actors
(the Star Trek computer is Majel Barrett, for those that don't happen
to know).  There have to be more computer-generated-voice "characters"
than just WOPR, right?

-ethan

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