[rescue] Anyone have some DECtalk gear?

[Robert Darlington]

$60 for two chips and the audio amp delivered.  Probably another $40
between the box, speaker, and wire.  The amp requires a potentiometer.
 I'll also probably buy a DE-9 connector for the serial port.

-Bob


On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> wrote:

> On 04/09/2013 03:16 PM, Robert Darlington wrote:
>
>>
>> I just bought a pair of chips from Sparkfun and a little audio amp board
>> and will make my own.   That crazy price tag, which as I understand it is
>> cheap for these things, really annoyed me into taking action.  If I make
>> more than one circuit board I'll open source it.  Basically I'm going to
>> make a replica of the prop used in WarGames.  Bud enclosure with a speaker
>> and a wire hanging out.  Easiest build ever.
>>
>
> What was the total cost of all the components?
>
>
>
>> -Bob
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 12:08 PM, Sheldon T. Hall <shel at artell.net> wrote:
>>
>>  On 4/8/2013 8:05 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello!
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone happen to have any DECtalk gear they're looking
>>>> to get rid of?  I need it for a little project of mine.
>>>>
>>>
>>> About 20 years ago, I worked on a project for NBC; it was a
>>> satellite-based
>>> corporate/affiliate news system.  One of the original peripherals
>>> specified
>>> was the DECtalk.  The idea was to have the scheduling news "read aloud"
>>> in
>>> TV stations' control rooms.
>>>
>>> The affiliate stations rebelled.  The last thing they needed was more
>>> noise
>>> in their control rooms, so NBC changed the spec and we used video titlers
>>> instead.  The cost of the DECtalk was a problem, too, for the smaller
>>> stations.
>>>
>>> So, you might find a local NBC TV station that bought one back in the
>>> day,
>>> and still has it.
>>>
>>> There were other text-to-speech devices back in that era, though I don't
>>> recall if any of them sang.
>>>
>>> -Shel
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