On 04 Mar 95 01:07:54 +0000, Johnathan Taylor said: > The Blue Alpha box also had a serious BUG in that it didn't impliment the > SP-0256 busy line so it couldn't string the allophones together seamlessly.
Do I take it then that the Blue Alpha contains an SPO256? If so then perhaps someone can give me an allophone list... > It is *possible* to intercept the screen output channel and build up each word > in a temporay work-space whilst passing the letters onto the normal screen > output channel driver and then at the end of the word use some form of lookup > table or rule system to make a good guess at the rerquired allaphones required > to speak that word > I believe the place such a utility should reside is in a few of the SAM > utility > ram 1K allocations in a 16k 'utility' page... Unfortunately, using the Sam to speak is (I would think) rather CPU-intesive unless you have an external device such as an SPO256. If you were playing the speech on the built-in sound chip or on the QAZAR or whatever then I imagine you wouldn't be able to do anything else at all. What we need is a DAC device which can input a couple of hundred bytes and then play them out at 8000Hz or whatever, just like the Sparc's /dev/audio. You could then top it up at each interrupt (just like xz80 does...). imc
