>Any thoughts/comments on the cheapest way to produce reasonably
>intelligible speech - just numbers 0-9 plus half a dozen short words.
>Volumes are hundreds so mask ROM is not an option.


Check out Olin's HAL project. He has a program to convert WAV files to data
tables for a PIC, which then produces sound using the PWM output. This may
produce something of acceptable quality. Certainly worth experimenting for a
couple of days.

http://www.embedinc.com/pic/

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