Emy Kit
See the assembly manual
Emy Assembled
TMS5220/TMS5100 speech engine
- LPC data are read from the SD card so an infinite vocabulary can be loaded
- Sound and vocabulary can be produced by concatenating allophones and prosody markers from the text file to affect rate, duration, and pitch. No limits here!
- The OLED crisp display allows browsing amongst the files and the lines within files to pick the sound the user wants to generate.
- Speech rendering can be tweaked in real-time to affect, rate, stretch, bend, pitch, and energy.
- All the potentiometers have CV entries attached to them
- Emy produces sounds in 3 major modes: Speech, Repeat, and VCO.
- In Speech mode, the speech starts with a gate signal and is completed before waiting for a new gate signal. The speech has priority.
- In Repeat mode, the speech starts and stops with the gate signal going high or low.
The gate has the priority, and the speech repeats while the gate is high. This mode is handy to create crazy rhythms. - In VCO mode, the LPC engine loops while the gate is high, producing steady notes.
Technical Details
- 16 hp
- micro SD card reader to read the text or update the firmware
- Diode for reverse polarity protection on power lines
- Consumption : +12V 60mA / -12V 18 mA
- Cortex-M0 ARM processor
- All inputs: 100k impedance, 12-bit ADC.
- CV control designed for 0-5 V entries
- aux out signal 5V
- OLED display
- mikroBUS host
- Output level 8 Vpp
- A USB port for communication, firmware updates, and USB keyboard text entry
Firmwares
Emy MIDI Serial 95.37 KB 55765 downloads
This firmware works both on Emy 2018 and 2019 editions. It allows Emy to behave like...
Emy MIDI USB 79.49 KB 55347 downloads
This firmware works both on Emy 2018 and 2019 editions. It allows Emy to behave like...
Emy Firmware 65.95 KB 103936 downloads
This firmware is designed for Emy 2019 edition (PCB revision 1.0c). It can run on...SD card
(if you need to get started with a new sd card)
Emy SD card image 32.99 KB 7754 downloads
Image of Emy's default SD card. It contains some .lpc files and .phon files to get...More files
Emy
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The MIDI version of the code (see above in Firmware) works great with this Ableton preset file
Emy Ableton MIDI to allophones effect rack 7.87 KB 34730 downloads
MIDI notes are renamed so they match Emy's allophones table This makes it easier...Manuals
Emy user manual
Emy kit assembly manual
Emy 2018 quickstart manual 569.91 KB 297317 downloads
Have a look at this little quick start manual to get started using the Emy 2018 speech...
Emy 2019 quick start manual 3.78 MB 135703 downloads
Have a look at this little quick start manual to get started using the Emy 2019 speech...Media
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