Text-to-Speech on a Low-Power Chip

Posted by michael on Wednesday November 7, 2001 @08:49AM from the youve-got-voicemail dept.

bluephone writes: "The EE Times has a story on a new chip from Winbond that can take ASCII or UNICODE text and convert it to either spoken English or Mandarin (the Chinese language, not the orange). The low-power chip scans the text and translates it into spoken phenomes and outputs it to a filter for smooth analog sound, or can directly output the digital signal. Imagine a cell phone with this, you can have your email read to you, rather than seeing a line at a time on a dinky screen, street directions from a website, or even Slashdot's headlines. :)"

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Re:Great... by friscolr · 2001-11-07 09:20 · Score: 0, Redundant

reminds me of M.C. Hawking - http://www.mchawking.com/music.html

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Could do this, too... by Darth+Hubris · 2001-11-07 09:29 · Score: 0, Redundant

http://www.mchawking.com/

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