We help you to express yourself with synthetic voices
Use a standard USB keyboard to enter some text and have it spoken live on VAX (soon on Kaiwa and Emy). The keyboard is connected to a USB gender changer (provided with the last edition of Emy ) which also powers the keyboard. The speech can…
Previously, I had described here: how to do compress sound using a venerable Windows 3.1 tool: Qbox Pro. The process what quite long to set up and does not always produce good results. Today I discovered BlueWizard from this post. BlueWizard runs on Mac and allows to…
The rev 2 of Talko’s firmware can now play notes over 2 octaves. It may seem obvious to have a 1V/octave CV to note in a VCO mode but this was quite challenging to achieve. (I may explain the process in another post as it could…
Talko’s code has been updated with 3 new sounds banks : Bank 15 : French Vowels Male (5) View this post on Instagram A post shared by Jean-Luc Deladrière (@polaxis) Bank 16 : English voiced allophones (72) Bank 17 : VCO friendly voiced allophones…
Talko 1.2 are now in stock, both as kits and as assembled modules. What’s new in version 1.2 Rotary encoder for smoother Bank change Encoder’s button can be pressed to simulate the gate signal going HIGH and make the module speak. Mode selection via a…
Talko is an open source Arduino based LPC speech synthesizer. It’s firmware can be updated via the onboard USB port, using the standard Arduino IDE. In Speech mode, the speech starts with a gate signal and complete before waiting for a new gate signal. The…
Adding new sounds or vocabulary for the Talkie library is not straightforward and I needed a checklist to smoothen the process. Here are the main steps : Recording audio with Audacity The recording has to be made at 8 kHz with 16-bit depth Export to…
Schematic Here is the schematic. Nothing really special : A simple RC filter I have used before with the Talkie library and a few pots to fiddle with the various functions. All the entries (cv and gate) are now protected with diodes to allow connections…
The almighty SSI-263 speech synthesizer chip As you can read on the Wikipedia page, the SSI-263 is the other name for the Votrax SC-02. It is becoming quite difficult to find, much harder then it’s little brother the Votrax SC-01 but I finally got one by…
