Re: MSX speech synth?

2000-12-27 Thread Laurens Holst
If you mean you type text and the MSX can speech it for you... yes. there was one made for MSX. It has a French accent though. This is only a simple program that plays the right samples at the right time on the Philips Music MOdule ADPCM output. I'd very much like to hear this

Re: MSX speech synth?

2000-12-20 Thread JP Grobler
On 20 Dec 2000 00:28:13 +0100, in local.msx.int you wrote: On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Patriek Lesparre wrote: There was an article about it in one of the old MSX Club Magazines. The commando to use is 'CALL SAY("blabla")' if I'm not mistaken. Please please please can you find this article and

Re: MSX speech synth?

2000-12-19 Thread Richard Atkinson
On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Patriek Lesparre wrote: There was an article about it in one of the old MSX Club Magazines. The commando to use is 'CALL SAY("blabla")' if I'm not mistaken. Please please please can you find this article and scan it in, or at least pass on the issue number and pages so

Re: MSX speech synth?

2000-12-18 Thread Manuel Bilderbeek
At 18:44 16-12-00 +0200, you wrote: Was there ever a msx speech synthesizer developed (like c64 - sam reciter?) If you mean you type text and the MSX can speech it for you... yes. there was one made for MSX. It has a French accent though. This is only a simple program that plays the

Re: MSX speech synth?

2000-12-18 Thread Richard Atkinson
On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Manuel Bilderbeek wrote: If you mean you type text and the MSX can speech it for you... yes. there was one made for MSX. It has a French accent though. This is only a simple program that plays the right samples at the right time on the Philips Music MOdule ADPCM

Re: MSX speech synth?

2000-12-18 Thread Tristan
This is only a simple program that plays the right samples at the right time on the Philips Music MOdule ADPCM output. I'd very much like to hear this program, as I have to add sample RAM to my Toshiba MSX-Audio in order to use ADPCM. Is it archived anywhere? Your Toshiba MSX-Audio can

Re: MSX speech synth?

2000-12-18 Thread Patriek Lesparre
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Also, the Yamaha CX5M had BASIC commands for speech synthesis. *snip* It does?? I have a CX5M... Can someone tell me how to do this? I'd like to try that... (I have no docs with my CX5M Please, if you have a manual or something, scan it and send it to [EMAIL

RE: MSX speech synth?

2000-12-17 Thread Albert Beevendorp
At 19:31 16-12-00 +0100, you wrote: the very-easy-to-build-yourself covox interface can do this too I believe. maybe someone still has the soldering descriptions somewhere, it's a printer connector and 2 or three 3 resistors for what I can remember of it. You need software to do the actual

RE: MSX speech synth?

2000-12-17 Thread Albert Beevendorp
At 19:54 16-12-00 +0100, you wrote: Bart Schouten wrote: the very-easy-to-build-yourself covox interface can do this too I believe. maybe someone still has the soldering descriptions somewhere, it's a printer connector and 2 or three 3 resistors for what I can remember of it. No, the Covox

Re: MSX speech synth?

2000-12-16 Thread Albert Beevendorp
At 18:44 16-12-00 +0200, you wrote: Was there ever a msx speech synthesizer developed (like c64 - sam reciter?) If you mean you type text and the MSX can speech it for you... yes. there was one made for MSX. It has a French accent though. I'll see if I can find it again because it's free.

Re: MSX speech synth?

2000-12-16 Thread Patriek Lesparre
At 18:05 16-12-00 +0100, you wrote: At 18:44 16-12-00 +0200, you wrote: Was there ever a msx speech synthesizer developed (like c64 - sam reciter?) If you mean you type text and the MSX can speech it for you... yes. there was one made for MSX. It has a French accent though. Also, the Yamaha

RE: MSX speech synth?

2000-12-16 Thread Bart Schouten
PROTECTED]]Namens Patriek Lesparre Verzonden: Saturday, December 16, 2000 7:09 PM Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Onderwerp: Re: MSX speech synth? At 18:05 16-12-00 +0100, you wrote: At 18:44 16-12-00 +0200, you wrote: Was there ever a msx speech synthesizer developed (like c64 - sam reciter?) If you mean you

Re: MSX speech synth?

2000-12-16 Thread Jose Angel Morente
JP Grobler soltó algo así como: Was there ever a msx speech synthesizer developed (like c64 - sam reciter?) Yeah ! There is a spanish adventure game called "Cobra's Arc" having a speech synth built-in. The main program is made en BASIC, so I presume that we could rip the single speech

RE: MSX speech synth?

2000-12-16 Thread Patriek Lesparre
Bart Schouten wrote: the very-easy-to-build-yourself covox interface can do this too I believe. maybe someone still has the soldering descriptions somewhere, it's a printer connector and 2 or three 3 resistors for what I can remember of it. No, the Covox interface or 'Covox Speech Thing' (IIRC)

Re: MSX speech synth?

2000-12-16 Thread Adriano Camargo Rodrigues da Cunha
Was there ever a msx speech synthesizer developed (like c64 - sam reciter?) Once, Nemesis Informatica, a brazilian softwarehouse (and piratehouse) released "Talker", a speech synthetizer. I was surprised when I tried it: the strong spanish accent. Later I discovered why: the