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...

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

You can buy a pre-made module from Devontech

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.