Developed during 1979 and marketed beginning in 1980, the Votrax SC-01A speech synthesizer chip was the first phoneme-based language chip available for consumer-grade applications.
It is capable of unlimited English speech using a stream of phoneme codes as input. All transitions between phonemes are handled automatically.
You can here a preview of the Votrax in action [...]
Musikmesse: Flame introduced the Flame MIDI Talking Synth, a small-sized MIDI-controlled sound module based on the analog Speakjet chip, produced by the U.S. company Magnevation.
Originally designed for basic artificially generated speech output in American English tongue, it has been refined and further developed as an 8-bit sound module with speech-like sounds and synthetic robot voices [...]
Scott Burgess of Bitnotic sent us word that they’ve released Laptop v1.0, an electronic pop song MP3 featuring the voices of VX-323, Bitnotic’s free MIDI-controlled speech synthesis software for Mac OS X.
The track features the voice Junior “singing” about a laptop computer’s obsessive love for its owner. Burgess notes, “When you have a talented performer [...]
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