I know we have two viable approaches in the works at this point, and I wanted to give a little update on where I'm at. I have reached out to the Festival Speech System researchers at the University of Edinburgh to get help on the creation of a Votrax module for their framework. In parallel, I'll working in Perl on the PETSCII to ASCII issues.rmelick wrote:I've ordered some parts today for a prototype. I'm striving for a simple, classic white, all-in-one design, with built-in speaker and volume control, that attaches directly to the User Port on the VIC/64/128. Driven by the $25 Raspberry Pi, it needs to also be reliable, upgradable and open.orion70 wrote:Ok Rick, thank you for your explanation. Now I can get most fof the stuff that's going on with your experiments. I'll follow their evolution with interest .
BTW... Will all this ever give a commercial product, i.e. something I will surely buy?
In addition, five prototype units are being assembled, but are not ready for sale. Denial members, for a preview you can see the item page here: http://goo.gl/nx64h. For goodness sake, please don't order anything! However, you can request to be placed in the back-order queue now if you are interested in one of these units.
I'd like to launch something by July 4th, and maybe offer a firmware upgrade later if we ever get the Votrax stuff figured out. We'll see.