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Talko Eurorack countdown timer

30/11/2016 By Jean-Luc Off

Here is a little countdown timer I developed for Hataken to help in timing mini gigs. It work like this : Choose the amount of time from 0 to 19 minutes with the BANK knob. Start the timer with a gate signal  or by pressing…

3 new sounds banks for Talko

27/08/2016 By Jean-Luc Off

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 as Ginkosynthese Grains

27/07/2016 By Jean-Luc Off

Both Talko 1.1 & 1.2 share some hardware with the Ginkosynthese Grains. The Grains is also an Arduino module (based on the famous Audino code from Peter Knight) with the 3 first analogues port being used to manipulate the sound Talko can also do this…

Talko 1.2 now available

01/06/2016 By Jean-Luc Off

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…

EasyUploader

23/04/2016 By Jean-Luc Off

I met Paul Soulsby at Superbooth16 in Berlin, earlier this month. Paul has developed an amazing piece of hardware based on the ATmega328P: The Amagatron Paul also developed a software to allow applying code without the hassle of using the Arduino IDE, installing libraries and…

Talko 1.2 is coming soon

16/03/2016 By Jean-Luc Off

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…

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…

Online Store

30/11/2015 By Jean-Luc Off

Polaxis has now an online shop : Please visit this page to grab my latest modules assembled or as DIY kits

Talko

25/10/2015 By Jean-Luc Off

” Have your modular speak out the CV “ Intro This module is performing realtime lpc synthesis and uses no sampling to produce intelligible voice or … not if you choose to. This module is developed with the help of the Muffwiggler community : LPC speech…

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25/10/2015 By Jean-Luc Off

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