Kaiwa Vox: new Kraftor firmware and Kaiwa Designer
24/10/2026Kaiwa Vox gets a new Kraftor firmware and browser-based Designer for Japanese speech, MIDI phrase playback and voice shaping.
Hardware with something to say
Category: Speech
Console now has a talking head
22/10/2026Console adds a 3D talking head, animated by phoneme data sent from Kraftor over serial. Watch RoboVox bring it to life.
VAX firmware update: MIDI voices and live text output
12/10/2026The VAX firmware update brings full-range DECtalk voice selection and live text output to Kraftor, demonstrated with the new Teletype controller and Console.
Meet Teletype: hands-on MIDI control for Kraftor
07/10/2026Five keys, four knobs and four banks: meet Teletype, a compact MIDI controller for Kraftor and other instruments. Configure it in your browser, save your settings and play.
Use a USB keyboard for text entry
23/10/2018Use 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…
How to add new vocabulary to Talko, the easy way
26/03/2017Previously, 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…
New Talko firmware : VCO mode can play semi-tones
25/02/2017The 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…
3 new sounds banks for Talko
27/08/2016Talko’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 now available
01/06/2016Talko 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 1.2 is coming soon
16/03/2016Talko 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…
