Voice synthetizer on Apple II

[bibilit]

Among the cards in my collection, i have a french card known as « Porte Parole »
Never had a try before, yesterday while having a complete setup, plugged the card and speaker.
The software is able to translate any keyboard input to a spoken output.
The result is pretty good for the era.

 

[LaPorta]

That's pretty cool! Wish it had an English version (does it?).

 

[bibilit]

You can enter phonetic sentences, so in a way yes… but not really what you will expect.
probably the same kind of card was available elsewhere.

 

[stepleton]

I used to have such a card many years ago. I think it used the same chip that was in a Speak & Spell. It came with some programming utilities that let your BASIC program talk, provided you stuck with a fairly limited (English) vocabulary.

 

[bibilit]

This card is using a MEA8000.

 

[bibilit]

This card is using a MEA8000