Wagner:

I agree totally ... and if my robot had a functional purpose such as
bringing me a cold beer and lighting my cigar it would definitely
have a delicate female voice, but my robot is only a toy and then
nostalgia sets in ... it should sound like the Votrax card in my
old CP/M computer sounded twenty years ago.  When you get to be an
old fart like me, then you get fixed ideas about the way things
"should be" ... and one of my perceptions is that a robot should
sound "metalic - deformed - clipped - distorted - etc." ... and it
should be able to say "Exterminate!, Exterminate!" and sound like
a Dalek.

Nick

Wagner Lipnharski wrote:
>
> In real, the "robot voice" was just a result of poor technology
> available at the time the first "speaking robots" or "speaking machines"
> started to talk.  A nice "suave" and delicate female voice can beat
> *any* metalic - deformed - clipped - distorted - uninteligible - yacky -
> robot voice... :) and you can hear your robot speaking for hours,
> right?  How long can you listen to your robot saying:  "eeeeh, me nammme
> ees berrrt, Immm a rrroboT, eeeeh" ?
>
> Wagner.
>
> Nick Taylor wrote:
> >
> > Hi All:
> >
> > I've been playing with an SPO256 speech chip for my 68HC11/PIC
> > based robot ... and I'm not very pleased with the results.  Now
> > I'm considering moving to the V860X speech board by RC Systems.
> >           http://www.rcsys.com/
> >
> > Since this is for a robot I do NOT want the voice to sound too
> > human ... it should "sound like a robot" ... so this eliminates
> > the voice recording/playback chip sets ... and leaves the text
> > or phoneme based gadgets.
> >
> > It there anyone here with experience with the VX860X that they
> > would like to share?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >  - - - Nick - - -