Philips PCF8200 voice synthesizer

a) Obsolete. Introduced about 1985 but dropped
   almost the same year.
   I still have a preliminary datasheet.
b) its a formant-synthesizer: the original
   devellopment system from would be
   necessary to code speech for it.

MfG  JRD

Hah, ok, thanks. Obsolte since 1985, and it would have been perfect for
my Bot since I have the I2C bus anyways. Sigh ;-)

Danke.

You could consider using and SP0256-AL2 or a SpeakJet to add speech to
you bot.  Both are available here...

http://www.speechchips.com

Thank you. What I really liked about the original part was the i2c bus,
since that is the bus system of choice in my bot anyways, used by the
face LED's, gyro, and accelerometers. I found some leftovers for over
$60 a piece, which is out of the question.

Do speakjet it is as soon as I can free up some more pins ;-)

Seems like there might be some ucontrollers - P87LPC760 or similar - that
have i2c interface and UART.  UART controls the speakjet.  A little more to
write the code but it seems fairly straightforward.

Jim

Take a look at the winbond chips
wts701
http://www.winbond.com/e-winbondhtm/partner/b_2_a_5_a.htm

online demo here
http://www.winbond-usa.com/ttsdemo/

http://www.winbond.com/e-winbondhtm/partner/b_2_a_5_f.htm   some example
files

You can buy a pre-made module from Devontech
http://www.robot-electronics.co.uk/shop/Speech_Synthesizer_SP032006.htm

The winbond chipcorder do record , playback of voice

Thanks for the links. Unfortunatly, the speech samples do not work using
Firefox, so I'll have to check them out later.

I saw the Devontech board and it may be an alternative. I did get some
offers on the Philips chip, but it was at least three times as expensive
as I expected.

Back to the drawing board... .

PS: voice recording is no alternative. The speech module will help the
robot communicate error conditions and measurements, all in all several
hundred different messages that are created at run-time.