Speech Synthesizers for VIC 20

[thecommodore]

hi all, i thought this would make a good thread... any info? fire away please

if anybody could supply me with a copy of the manual for adman electronics speech cart i will be able to work it again, i've forgotten the commands basically, lost the manual in the moove

i've also got alien voice box but never got it to work

i prefer em to c64 versions that i've heard SO FAR, currah etc, the vic ones sound more robotic and basic and harsh

[Jeff-20]

I would like to restate: If anyone has a speech cart, please post wav files. I would like to preserve good examples. I, for one, have never heard any speech cart for the VIC.

[thecommodore]

if i can get hold of the manual for adman i will do so, this will also encourage me to dust off the 2 or 3 others i have and record em
adman was my fave
i need the software program to get alien group box working too...

[JagMod]

I built and programmed a speech cart for the VIC back in the 80's when I was in college. I used a chip Radio Shack was selling at the time.
Actually wasn't a cart, but a white experimental board hooked up to the user port.

[yago]

Some friend lend me his "speak easy" speech cartridge, which plugs into userport, and is therefore compatible with c64 and vic20.

I used that beast also on several demos, for example "knochentanz"

http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=29965

I also recorded an mp3 from it, please forgive the bad quality
http://k2.untergrund.net/music/knochentanz.mp3

The used chip inside the speak easy cart is a SP0256.

Some of viznut/pwp excellent demos even have software speech synthesizers[/url]

[brain]

I have a Jameco Speech Synthesizer that works on the user port and that which I used with my VIC-20. I'll try to hook it up and record it.

Jim

[carlsson]

I still wonder if the C64 version of SAM, the Software Automatic Mouth could be ported to the VIC-20. I've spoken with a highly skilled coder who doubted it, but as far as I understand it is made up from sampled phonemes put in order. One of those days when I have absolutely nothing else to do (i.e. in 30 years from now), I will try to disassemble the program and have a look.

[darkatx]

I was thinking about the very same idea of taking brief samples and making some sort of tiny synthesizer on the Vic - but the problem would be quality.
Viznut's stuff is the closest thing to what I've ever seen done on a stock Vic...