Look in Nuts & Volts (June) under "Talking Stamps using the Quadravox
QV306M4-P" If you can do it with a stamp you can also do it with the PIC
chips. (Stamp uses a pic chip).
Wrong Way Ray (Raymond Choat)


----- Original Message -----
From: "Olin Lathrop" <olin_piclist@EMBEDINC.COM>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2001 7:26 AM
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.
>
>
> ********************************************************************
> Olin Lathrop, embedded systems consultant in Littleton Massachusetts
> (978) 742-9014, olin@embedinc.com, http://www.embedinc.com
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