Cool idea, how about a link to the home desktop PC to update it
daily/weekly.  Kind of a phrase of the day to teach kids new languages.
However, having lived overseas, nothing will make a kid learn a foreign
language faster than when the other children they play with speak only that
language.  The parents speaking different languages does not always make a
difference as the kids just tune out mom or dad.  My two boys didn't even
speak english until they were 5 and 6 respectively.  Now that is all they
speak and know.   The learning curve for English was lightning fast once in
USA.
Regards,
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Olin Lathrop" <olin_piclist@EMBEDINC.COM>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2001 3:26 PM
Subject: Re: [EE]: Voice Playback for "Novelty Toys"


> > He wants to produce a novelty toy that speaks. say 6 phrases, 2-4
seconds
> > each..
> >
> > I was wondering if anyone has any experience with this. I know that
there
> > are Chip-On-Board solutions for this kind on thing, any pointers? Any
> ideas
> > of the costs and order quantities needed?
>
> That's within range of a PIC with PWM output and external EEPROM for
storing
> directly digitized voice.  A halloween project of mine
> (http://www.embedinc.com/pic/hal.htm) stores about 7 seconds of low
quality
> audio in a 16F876, so a single external EEPROM should be able to handle 12
> to 24 seconds.
>
>
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