So, how much do you suppose it would cost to add an amp and a support chip to drive that as a DecTalk or any other sort of currently available external synth?
Now here is an idea, a USB cable with a synth and headphone/speaker jack powered off of the USB port. Maybe a chunk of RAM with some sort of a bootable screen reader. You said this is in some sort of unusual package, can you describe something of this when you get one please? Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype DaleLeavens Come and meet Aurora, Nakita and Nanook at our polar bear habitat. ----- Original Message ----- From: Tom Fowle To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 5:07 PM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] speech chip update Just FYI, I've been in touch with folks at local epson sales office. they are just comming out with what amounts to a dec talk on a single chip for about $10.00. Only minor problem is it is in a very strange package so we'll have to see how we can make it possible for small manufacturers and individuals to work with it. They are going to be selling them through a known supplier in small quantities, unlike some big companies who will only sell you thousands. This looks most promising. We'll be getting a demo and access to an engineer in the next few weeks. I'll report back when I know more. If this works out, when yo ask companies to make there stuff talk you will be able to give them a part number. with speech synthesis available for ten bucks, fancy pre-recorded digitized speech will be a thing of the past, except for talking books of course. This can't be me, I'm actually sounding optomistic, something will go wrong. Tom [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
