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re:  	Speech Boards
from:	Fred Martin

RC Systems, Inc. makes a low-cost ASCII to voice board that provides
far better performance than the now-discontinued General Instrument
speech chip set many are familiar with.  The RC Systems product is a
small board with a CPU and a custom English text to phoneme converter.
It accepts TTL level serial as input and includes an LM386 power
op-amp so you just hook a speaker to the board and it's ready to talk.
The board has a socket for an NV-RAM chip to serve as an exception
dictionary.  It also can generate DTMF codes and other musical
outputs.  

All in all, it's a pretty awesome little board for US$150.  I don't
know of anything else like it on the market.

    RC Systems, Inc.
    1609 England Avenue
    Everett, WA 98203  USA
    phone: 206 355-3800
    fax:       355-1098
    
    UK/Europe dealer:  +4481 539 0285

Standard disclaimer applies:  I have no affiliation with RC Systems
other than having tried and liked their product.

	-Fred