Brads Electronic Projects Forum

Text to speech chip

http://www.speechchips.com/shop/item.aspx?itemid=22

That would be great for one of my LED games!

Cool chip but its abit pricey?.

I was thinking that also.

I was looking into buying licenses for the SWINSID chip (which is basically the sound chip from the commodore 64) that some guy has made. But it was going to work out too expensive for my project.

If you are worried about cost, you could use one of these:

http://www.microchip.com/stellent/idcpl ... e=en023610

I think you can use an PIC18F1320 with the library.

I'm still trying to find the pictalker project of Dr. Derek Weston but it seems it has been removed from the links I have known.

http://www.ginsingsound.com/

This is another commercial product:

http://babblebot.net/babblebot_ic.html

The other thing you can explore is this user group:

http://www.uelectronics.info/soundgin-a ... -generator

Credit given to Leon at this post:

http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.p ... ost1042915

Thanks for all the info Chuck!