All of this Z80 retro-stuff (among other things) got me thinking... I don't think it would be too hard to build a hardware tts box. The same guy who has the scanner got a voice playback and record chip for christmas; I'd thought that perhaps diphones could be recorded to it and played back selectively, but unfortunately it only plays back big chunks. IMHO, festival using 99% of my CPU for ~2sec is rather outrageous, as the Amiga 2000 on the back porch (2Mb ram, 8MHz 68000, multitasking OS) could do some very nice tts (and very quickly). Therefore, I think that an 8bit processor doing dedicated systhesis would work fine... But I really don't know anything about speech systhesis. I'm 95% sure that I could build the hardware if someone can write the software (plug plug)... Ok, perhaps a phoenome systhesizer, 'cause a Z80 would have a hard time finding enough RAM/ROM to store a lexicon in... The Amiga will soon be hooked to my desktop, providing leightweight tts via a serial cable and an AREXX script, but I think it would be a bit heavy to be carting about on my back (not to mention the battery hit :)... -- Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.ml.org
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