Tim Gray wrote: > > Sound capability on a wearable can be an important part. > Being able to get aural cues instead of visual would be helpful in many > situations, and if text to speech evolves as fast as it has recently the > removal of the HMD can becoma a viable option. > My current wearable project will include a "linux" compatable sound card (I > found a 1"X1" Ensonic sound scape card in an old epson laptop) I'd really like to add audio to my wearable to do at least text to speech, but I'm hesitant to add yet another card to the pc/104 stack, or add the serial port driven doubleTalk box. Has anyone thought about using an off the shelf speech synthesizer chip? I've seen single chips at radio shack that do text to speech, and although the quality of the output may be pretty bad, it would be a way to add speech capability to my wearable without adding alot of additional electronics and boards. I did a quick search and there are lots of vendors selling single chip speech synthesizers, so I imagine some of them are pretty easy to build serial interfaces to. Any suggestions for chips? and whether this is relatively easy to do? -Paul -- R. Paul McCarty / DARS Coordinator // x52059 317 Lattimore Hall, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627 Computers don't make errors; what they do, they do on purpose.-Dale/KOTH
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