>was just gonna say voices are handled by the Samples
Just like the Toaplan MCU audio example, this is also where samples support should eventually be dropped whenever the Votrax SC-01 hardware is completely emulated. The company never released any hardware documents other than patents and the chip had to be reverse engineered a bit by what was shown on the filed patents documents.
*The excerpt below is from my old post from winter 2012.*
Formalized the Votrax SC-01 device. Implemented the full set of digital logic from the patent, including the timing circuit, transition circuit, glottal generator, and noise source. Some unknowns still exist with regards to clocking, due to contradictory statements in the patent, but as it stands now, all parameters are fetched and processed, phonemes are requested, and in theory all that remains is for someone with analog sound experience to simulate the filters on the output. For now, you just get the raw glottal pulse mixed with the noise signal based on the vocal and fricative amplitudes, which is enough to show progress, but hardly a pleasing result just yet. [Aaron Giles, Lord Nightmare, Olivier Galibert] -
What is still needed is someone that can do work similar to what couriersud could do and maybe former MAMEdev member Derrick Renaud as well.
The video example that Gyrovision posted back in 2012 and linked in 2013.
btw: Whoever was answering the telephone for the pizza order in the 1970s had to be wondering if the phone call was some comedy gag by the staff on Alan Fundt's long ago American tv show 'Candid Camera'.
- incorporating a Votrax voice synthesizer, a product of the Federal Screw Works Co. of Troy, Michigan. The inventor of the Votrax voice synthesizer was Richard Gagnon from Birmingham, MI.
"orders a pizza using a talking computer, Dec 4, 1974"