Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!ucsd!sdcsvax!ucsdhub!hp-sdd!ncr-sd!serene!pnet12!gbell From: gbell@pnet12.cts.com (Greg Bell) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: CODECs and voice digitizing Message-ID: <184@serene.UUCP> Date: 2 Dec 88 23:36:04 GMT Sender: root@serene.UUCP Organization: People-Net [pnet12], Del Mar, CA Lines: 27 I'm building a project and I need to use voice synthesis. Something like National Semiconductor's Digitalker would be great, but the vocabulary is limited. I have two questions: o Are there any really good (not too expensive) phoneme speech synthesizer chip? The SP0256-AL2 isn't too good. I've heard that the SSI-263 is better. Are there others that are intelligible? o Also, does anybody have any experience with using CODECs or other chips to digitize speech? I'd like to be able to find some sort of compression technique so that I wouldn't need a lot of EPROMs. But, I'd like to hear from anybody who has experimented with digitizing speech. GBell UUCP: { uunet ncr-sd }!pnet12!gbell ARPA: crash!pnet12!gbell@nosc.mil INET: gbell@pnet12.cts.com