Hardware with something to say
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…
