Emic module pronoucing alpahabet instead of speaking the word

timex

I suceeded in making my emic module talk. Whenever I send a single word, it converts the word to speech. But when I send a sentence, it pronouces each letter of the sentence and converts the last word of the sentence to speech, not the others. What have I done wrong?

Post Edited (timex) : 9/23/2008 10:07:01 AM GMT

Zoot

Can you post your code? Are you sending text in all caps?

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1uffakind.com/robots/povBitMapBuilder.php
1uffakind.com/robots/resistorLadder.php

timex

Ok, my code is for Atmel's AT89C51. Yes, I'm sending text in caps. Will that be a problem?

Zoot

Text in "all caps" get spelled out, e.g.,:

Cat is spelled CAT

will speak

"cat is spelled see ai tee"

I learned this the hard way last year. Undocumented feature.

However, after a bit of work, I tracked down some documentation for the (now obsolete) Winbond TTS chip used in the Emic (and the Devantech SP03).

Turns out you can slip control characters (like the ^p for phoentics) into the serial byte stream to control what happens in case of caps, abbreviations and the like:



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1uffakind.com/robots/povBitMapBuilder.php
1uffakind.com/robots/resistorLadder.php

Post Edited (Zoot) : 9/24/2008 7:44:41 PM GMT

timex

Ok. I'll send text in non- cap format. Thanks for the information.

timex

I sent the text in non- cap format and it works very well. Thanks for the assistance.