Digitalker?

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cbmeeks
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Digitalker?

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So I was reading through the book "Easy Interfacing Projects for the VIC-20" and one of the projects mentioned the Digitalker.

I had never heard of it and I couldn't find anything online. It seems like it was a speech synthesizer cart that also supported ROM playback of spoken samples.

Anyone here ever heard of it? I'd love to find one for sale. :-)
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Re: Digitalker?

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Found this

http://www.classiccmp.org/cini/pdf/re/B ... (1288).pdf

It's interesting in that it has complete words rather than phonemes like the SC-01 or the SP0256A-AL2.
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http://bombjack.org/commodore/books.htm

There is a book on Bomjack's site

The Electronics Projects for your Commodore 64 and 128

It's almost at the bottom of the page with a purple cover. It also features making your own digitalker and playback as well as speech synthesizer with the SPO256 chip mentioned by srowe.
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