There was a project to do exactly this in a fairly recent edition of
Elector.  It used IIRC an AVR and an Atmel flash memory.  I have it at home
somewhere, if no-one else knows I'll email which issue it was tommorow.

Regards

Mike Rigby-Jones

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Seyler Jean-Yves [SMTP:Jean-Yves.Seyler@CNES.FR]
> Sent: Friday, May 28, 1999 8:11 AM
> To:   PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject:      Standalone WAV Player ?
>
>                 hello all big PICers,
>
> My apologizes if this sounds too much [OT] ...
>
>         Does any of you has big ideas about a stand alone ".WAV files"
> player ?
>
> I thought of a pic scrolling through addresses of a (big !) EPROM, the
> outputs feeding a DAC (single resistors ?) followed by a filter and a
> "power" amp.
> The other PIC's inputs will allow me to choose between several messages
> ...
>
> But, maybe, the audio quality would be rather nasty and I'd better switch
> to
> an "ISD design" with sounds recorded directly from the audio output of my
> PC
> ?
>
> Any comments will be welcome :-))
>
> Jean-Yves