Tuesday, February 03, 2009
1994 Human Voice Synthesizer Calculator Prototype
YouTube via VironCybernet
"This is one of two prototypes. The other had a display, but was given away and then sadly thrown away. It uses the same kind of speech synthesis as my "awful" disks from 1985, but the method of programming sounds was reasonable in this case. This project was cancelled without ever being tested by for whom it was being designed, and is in a very early and peculiar state. It calculates arithmetic using it's memory as a virtual blackboard, exactly as a person would do it, but has a precision of 14 digits. It has the voices of two people, which were copied from my other projects, because I had not yet gotten around to making a voice specifically for it. The synthesizer was hastily set to work below telephone quality and below worst-case MP3 sample rates but I don't think it sounds bad in this video, especially compared to the "1985 disks".
The video ends as the battery "croaks"."
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