Can’ You speak ?

[solderman]

Hi
I ordered some stuff from my local sorce and found this in the "New" department. It seams to be some kind of synthetic speech machine. This sort of triggered my fantasy. From a quick glance at the documentation it seams to be able to control it wit High-Lo voltage logic. Can probably do with some kind of VCO and LFO trigger etc.

http://www.electrokit.se/download/speakjet-usermanual.pdf

Image that
-Use some frequency filer trigger that produce a Lo or High at X Hz and another on Y Hz
-This trigger a pre set phrase "welcome Mr" or "Get lost" depending on octave played
-Add a PT2399 Echo
-Add mixing with guitar
-Add more fantasy....



From description
The SpeakJet is a completely self-contained, single-chip voice and complex sound synthesizer. It uses a mathematical sound algorithm to control an internal five channel sound synthesizer to generate on-the-fly, unlimited vocabulary speech synthesis and complex sounds.

The SpeakJet is pre-configured with 72 speech elements (allophones), 43 sound effects, and 12 DTMF Touch Tones. Through the selection of these sounds, and in combination with the control of the pitch, rate, bend, and volume parameters, the user has the ability to produce unlimited phrases and sound effects, with thousands of variations, at any time.

The SpeakJet can be controlled simultaneously by logic changes on any one of its eight Event Input lines, and by a single I/O serial line, allowing for both CPU-controlled and stand-along operations.

Features:
Programmable, 5-channel synthesizer
Natural phonetic speech synthesis
DTMF and other sound effects.
Programmable control of pitch, rate, bend and volume.
Programmable power – up or reset announcements.
Multiple modes of operation.
Simple interface to microcontrollers.
Simple "Stand Alone" operation.
Three programmable digital outputs.
Internal 64 Byte input buffer.
Internal programmable EEPROM.
Extremely low power consumption.
Low pin count.
Multiple case styles available.

[Nasse]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brTbNNFFpdQ

[petemoore]

  You could soon have R2 interview the Speak 'n Spell.

[Hides-His-Eyes]

Oh man, this looks incredible.

[Paul Marossy]

So what kind of effect could you create from this thing? Just crazy noises?

[StereoKills]

An auto-talk box?

[Top Top]

Using it for a guitar synth, I imagine, would probably present all the usual problems with other pitch tracking guitar synth effects.

However, could be pretty cool integrated into a keyboard/other type of synth to produce different types of sounds from the regular additive or subtractive sounds.

[Electron Tornado]

I can see it now.....

Hello, HAL. Do you read me, HAL?
Affirmative, Dave. I read you.
Open the bottom cover of your box, HAL.
I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.
What's the problem?
I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do.
What are you talking about, HAL?
The tone of this stompbox is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it.
I don't know what you're talking about, HAL.
I know that you and Frank were planning to modify my clipping diodes and tone stack, and I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen.

[MikeH]

An auto-talk box?

Can we make it go "Do- you- feeel- like- we- doooooo..."?

[Paul Marossy]

I can see it now.....

Hello, HAL. Do you read me, HAL?
Affirmative, Dave. I read you.
Open the bottom cover of your box, HAL.
I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.
What's the problem?
I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do.
What are you talking about, HAL?
The tone of this stompbox is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it.
I don't know what you're talking about, HAL.
I know that you and Frank were planning to modify my clipping diodes and tone stack, and I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen.

LOL 

[Hides-His-Eyes]

An auto-talk box?

I like it a lot!

saves a lot of tubing