Software for CV speech synthesizer?

[Bomberman93]

Does anyone have a software (.rom) to test the new speech synthesizer with a colecovision?

I don't have a Adam but I Iove the idea of a speech synthesizer.  Like the good old Ti99 4a.

Maybe exists a demo or a simple text-to-speech program. I know, text-typing with a simple controller is horrible.

[NIAD]

A test or demo rom has not been developed "yet" for the CV / ADAM Speech Synthesizer. Hopefully something can be made available as it would be a good idea to provide. There are a couple games that already support it, one available to purchase and another in development, but can't mention that person's name as it is taboo around here.

 

[Tekman]

Yes, there is a freely downloadable demo ROM for the CV/ADAM available that sings London Bridge, but the person that made it is not allowed to be discussed on this forum. Try going to youtube and searching for "The ColecoVision Recites London Bridge" there just might be a link in the description below the video. Sorry to make it so difficult, but that is the game we have to play on this forum.

[Bomberman93]

I know, I know.

Thanks for the hint to the link.

It would be great, if one of the other programmers is interested to write a code to use the synthesizer with the CV.

We will see.

 

[zyzzle]

Didn't Digital Fluff release a demo of the S.A.M. synthesizer for the Coleco? I seem to recall about a year ago. But, I could never get it to work on any emulator. I know he released a digital talking clock which used samples. It never worked on ColEm, but I got it running with CoolCV.

[Digital Fluff]

On 11/15/2023 at 11:37 PM, zyzzle said:

Didn't Digital Fluff release a demo of the S.A.M. synthesizer for the Coleco? I seem to recall about a year ago. But, I could never get it to work on any emulator. I know he released a digital talking clock which used samples. It never worked on ColEm, but I got it running with CoolCV.

The Coleco S.A.M. demo was made to figure out the best way to play back samples on the ColecoVision. It works for me on BlueMSX but it has subtle playback differences compared to real hardware. Same for the Phoenix. A lot of progress has been made since then.

 

I am considering a release of the cartridge, but don't know how many people would be interested in it.

[zyzzle]

Yes, I remembered the old thread from a year ago: 

and am very glad to see you've made lots of progress. Sounds just like the S.A.M. that I remember on the C64 and Apple II. As for interest, hard to tell, but I'd certainly welcome a cartridge release. Or, at least a new demo .rom to tide us oldschool speech synthesizer fans over!