sjt Posted August 15, 2014 Share Posted August 15, 2014 (edited) I was having some fun playing with speech on the TI and threw together a speech demo cartridge of some LPC data I was working on. This could be added to a multicart, run as a 8k eprom cartridge , put in a supercart or run under win99 (file included) as a cartridge. It should run with just the console, speech synthesizer and programmed cartridge (eprom/multicart/supercart) Steve SPEECHDEMO1.ZIP Edited August 15, 2014 by sjt 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willsy Posted August 15, 2014 Share Posted August 15, 2014 Ha! Just ran it in Win994A! Brilliant Job! Glad to see more people experimenting with speech! :thumbsup: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjt Posted August 15, 2014 Author Share Posted August 15, 2014 Thanks Mark, and thanks again for your help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sometimes99er Posted August 17, 2014 Share Posted August 17, 2014 Nice. I could only get it to work with Win994a. Classic99 and MESS garbles all the way. I did some experimenting several years ago (using the Qboxpro) and if you watch and/or manipulate/dampen "the spikes" it can get quite good. I gotta have speech in at least one of my future games. I'm not exactly sure how one gets the TI "singing", and I think I exchanged notes with the guy over at niceandgames. Anyways here's a few demos ... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tursi Posted August 17, 2014 Share Posted August 17, 2014 I'm not exactly sure how one gets the TI "singing", and I think I exchanged notes with the guy over at niceandgames. Anyways here's a few demos ... I had TI SINGS back in the day, it uses the TE2 cartridge which includes commands for adjusting the pitch and slope of the spoken words, and that's what it does, tweaking the pitch (and slope IIRC) of each word, as well as using phonetic spelling to get the intended result (for instance for those LOOOOOOOOOONG words ). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjt Posted August 19, 2014 Author Share Posted August 19, 2014 I never tested this on Mess. It will run under Win99 and loaded into a cartridge and run on real hardware. (supercart or eprom in a cartridge, should work in a multicart, though it will take up a bunch of screen positions) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
majestyx Posted August 20, 2014 Share Posted August 20, 2014 Neil Diamond on auto-tune - the TI-99 was way ahead of its time in more ways than one! Someone should update this for Cher's I Believe in Love After Love, as it's quite similar in, um, singing style. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sometimes99er Posted August 20, 2014 Share Posted August 20, 2014 (edited) Apparently irrelevant. Edited August 26, 2014 by sometimes99er Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sometimes99er Posted August 20, 2014 Share Posted August 20, 2014 (edited) Apparently irrelevant. Edited August 26, 2014 by sometimes99er Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted August 23, 2014 Share Posted August 23, 2014 (edited) So, now back from vacation I had a chance to test SPEECHDEMO on MESS. Words are well understandable (no garbling, but I presume a reasonably recent MESS version, of course), but could sound a bit better. I'll try it on my real Geneve with boxed speech synthesizer later. The TMS5200 emulation in MESS has proved to be almost perfect so far; would be interesting to see if we have an issue here. Here's the RPK for use in MESS. [Edit: "Shall we play a game" is not understandable, but the others are] speechdemo.rpk Edited August 23, 2014 by mizapf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 I did a test on "real iron", that is, on my Geneve with the speech synthesizer plugged into the P-Box on my selfmade adapter. The result is pretty similar to the output of MESS. In particular, the phrase "Shall we play a game" is not understandable. All speech samples were recorded on the attached file (using my tablet as a voice recorder). I don't have Win994a; does it produce other output? speech.wav Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sometimes99er Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 Yep. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sometimes99er Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 Hmmm ... Here's another try Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 Does not really differ in my ears, first one "shall we bay ow wou", so MESS, Win994a, and real iron deliver virtually the same output. What is Qboxpro, a PC tool? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willsy Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 What is Qboxpro, a PC tool? Yep. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVDE-6TtmFQ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 Oh dear, ancient 16 bit code from dark Win 3.1 times ... But it seems as if the source code is included, so maybe some Windows experts here could try to rebuild it for current platforms. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willsy Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 Indeed. Yet, it *still* runs on Windows 7. That really impresses me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tursi Posted August 30, 2014 Share Posted August 30, 2014 Oh dear, ancient 16 bit code from dark Win 3.1 times ... But it seems as if the source code is included, so maybe some Windows experts here could try to rebuild it for current platforms. Source is included? I didn't have source in the download I got ages ago, is there a newer download? I'd be happy to take a stab at it, on my machine I've had to run it under DOSBox. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willsy Posted August 30, 2014 Share Posted August 30, 2014 No there's no source. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted August 30, 2014 Share Posted August 30, 2014 I thought the ASM files were source code files of Qbox. -rw-r--r-- 1 michael users 51349 9. Jan 1997 D610_10.ASM -rw-r--r-- 1 michael users 51194 9. Jan 1997 D610_12.ASM -rw-r--r-- 1 michael users 51347 9. Jan 1997 D68_10.ASM -rw-r--r-- 1 michael users 51192 9. Jan 1997 D68_12.ASM -rw-r--r-- 1 michael users 4646 13. Mär 1997 D6RAD.COD -rw-r--r-- 1 michael users 63384 24. Mär 1997 downsmp.dll -rw-r--r-- 1 michael users 2055 15. Okt 2004 install.log -rw-r--r-- 1 michael users 16384 3. Feb 1997 KIT52_10.BIN -rw-r--r-- 1 michael users 16384 3. Feb 1997 KIT52_8.BIN -rw-r--r-- 1 michael users 16384 30. Dez 1996 QBOXPR10.BIN -rw-r--r-- 1 michael users 16384 30. Dez 1996 QBOXPR8.BIN -rw-r--r-- 1 michael users 569013 24. Mär 1997 QBOXPRO.EXE -rw-r--r-- 1 michael users 1427 28. Okt 2004 QBOXPRO.INI -rw-r--r-- 1 michael users 8628 1. Dez 2004 qboxqboxpro.GID -rw-r--r-- 1 michael users 148659 21. Mär 1997 qboxQBOXPRO.HLP -rw-r--r-- 1 michael users 3184 11. Nov 1996 QV5220.COD -rw-r--r-- 1 michael users 5120 8. Jan 1997 readme.wri drwxr-xr-x 2 michael users 4096 1. Jan 1970 SAMPLPRO -rw-r--r-- 1 michael users 189488 21. Mär 1997 SAMPLPRO.HLP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tursi Posted September 1, 2014 Share Posted September 1, 2014 Those appear to be playback routines. I looked at them too. I didn't know what processor they are for, though, they are not Intel. Googling the "TSP50C10" in the header pointed me to http://www.ti.com/lit/ml/spss011d/spss011d.pdf -- which describes a programmable speech synthesizer chip. So very interesting! The TSP50C0x/1x family of speech synthesizers offer cost-effective solutionsfor high-volume applications. Each incorporates a built in microprocessor that allows music as well as speech capability. Texas Instruments offers five sizes of internal ROM for up to three minutes of speech. In addition, the devices can be interfaced to external speech memory. But no, nothing for the encoder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RXB Posted September 1, 2014 Share Posted September 1, 2014 This chip was mounted in a small module that was put into many devices for the blind. Handheld readers that were portable and the time that plugged into wall socket for use at library. Even was one of the first chips used for text to speech translator. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fer Posted August 21, 2022 Share Posted August 21, 2022 On 8/17/2014 at 3:24 PM, Tursi said: I had TI SINGS back in the day, it uses the TE2 cartridge which includes commands for adjusting the pitch and slope of the spoken words, and that's what it does, tweaking the pitch (and slope IIRC) of each word, as well as using phonetic spelling to get the intended result (for instance for those LOOOOOOOOOONG words ). I fount out that, from Terminal emulator 2 cartridge, opening SPEECH as output, speech module accepts escape codes such as "//n", wehere n can be a number from 0 and upwards (0 makes kind of an evil voice) 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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