On Wednesday (09/17/2025 at 11:21AM -0400), Anders Nelson wrote: > Epson still makes a DECTalk chip, basically DECTalk code on an Epson MCU > with a serial interface: S1V30120.
Yup! That's the part on Joe Grand's board-- front-ended by a Coldfire MCU of some sort. > https://www.mikroe.com/text-to-speech-click > > I really hope someone ports DECTalk to an STM32 with a DAC... That would be a nice modernization. Chris > On Wed, Sep 17, 2025, 10:56 AM Chris Elmquist via cctalk < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > On Monday (09/15/2025 at 03:24PM +0000), Frank Ventura via cctalk wrote: > > > Ah nothing sounds like DECTalk like DECTalk 😉 That is a good idea. I am > > not versed in Linux development so I have no idea what is involved with > > using that. I would assume it would need at least one more component to be > > developed to accpt the serial port input, respond to the control characters > > and pass the input to that DECTalk code. > > > > I tried to reply to this but for some reason my reply was rejected by > > the moderator. > > > > The moderator gave the following reason for rejecting your request: > > > > "[No reason given]" > > > > Anyway, I hoped to suggest that maybe Joe Grand could be convinced to > > produce his EMIC2 speech synthesizer module again as it is a fully > > DECTALK compatible module with serial interface. If you need USB, > > you'd just frontend it with a USB to serial adapter, > > > > https://grandideastudio.com/portfolio/do-it-yourself/emic-2-text-to-speech/ > > > > They used to be sold by SparkFun but they stopped producing them in 2023. > > > > Chris -- Chris Elmquist
