Category: Talkie

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How to add new vocabulary to Talko, the easy way

26/03/2017 By Jean-Luc Off

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…

LPC encoding for the Arduino’s Talkie library

28/12/2015 By Jean-Luc Off

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…

Talkie Eurorack Module – Part 1 : Concept

08/10/2014 By Jean-Luc Deladriere Off

Credits This arduino based module works thanks to a clever library : Talkie from https://github.com/going-digital/Talkie  I have already used this library to build a Talking clock It is so simple to use that building a sound module requires only 5 pots and a button to…

Arduino talking clock

23/12/2012 By Jean-Luc Deladriere Off

Talkie I’ve discovered this great library here https://github.com/going-digital/Talkie  They have done an impressive job. The library is provided with a large vocabulary. It is a software implementation of the Texas Instruments speech synthesis architecture (Linear Predictive Coding). It is just amazing to discover what  the…