parallax eMic voice module impression
CircuitBurner
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Found this little gem at Fry's electronics while trolling for sensors and whatever other goodies I could procure over the weekend.
A parallax eMic 'text to speech' voice module.
These little gadgets are one of the best add on devices, with the most impact per dollar on the 'fun and highly versatile' quality potential Ive seen.
Definitely one is going permanently into my current robot-retofit/modernization effort as a nice improvement in audio signaling from robot to any carbon units...making realistic simulations of the sounds/noises those carbon units use to communicate with everyday.
By the 1st night tinkering, I had devised the early workings of a Mongolian language assistant device.... with future vision of it turning into
a fairly complex and versatile Mongolian language translator tool.
The wifey (ze boss) is a natural speaker irritatingly fluent in the language, and am still awaiting the grade she gives it after she hears it.
It relies on a hash of english word fragments to produce the twistingly challenging syllables and accents of the mongolian language..
Sometimes, all you really needed was a native speaker tagging along with you in a foreign country to at least let you hear what to say...
Why not get one that you carry in the pocket?
youtube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpGJOCPBdjU
Also grabbed a propeller P8X32 DIP pack bare chip, and suprised how few added support parts are required to whip-up a quick and super-cheap propeller
controller board. I connected the chip to computer to successfully test serial IO services with an extreme bare bones config...
The chip, some wires, and a single resistor...stood alone as a complete micro-controller entity ( an 8 core one at that)
its prolly smarter to get external crystal reference and the little eeprom and a 3.3v regulator to pretty much round out the essentials of a propeller board.
This propeller thing, with its multi cogs, is already intriguing me with possibilities as I learn a little about it.
Seems to be a path over and beyond current limitations of functionality when using single core arduinos, etc.
Theres a hotel and a maid armed with a vacuum cleaner..
Another similar hotel has 8 maids with vacuum cleaners...
I know which hotel does the vacuuming in much less time..lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpGJOCPBdjU
A parallax eMic 'text to speech' voice module.
These little gadgets are one of the best add on devices, with the most impact per dollar on the 'fun and highly versatile' quality potential Ive seen.
Definitely one is going permanently into my current robot-retofit/modernization effort as a nice improvement in audio signaling from robot to any carbon units...making realistic simulations of the sounds/noises those carbon units use to communicate with everyday.
By the 1st night tinkering, I had devised the early workings of a Mongolian language assistant device.... with future vision of it turning into
a fairly complex and versatile Mongolian language translator tool.
The wifey (ze boss) is a natural speaker irritatingly fluent in the language, and am still awaiting the grade she gives it after she hears it.
It relies on a hash of english word fragments to produce the twistingly challenging syllables and accents of the mongolian language..
Sometimes, all you really needed was a native speaker tagging along with you in a foreign country to at least let you hear what to say...
Why not get one that you carry in the pocket?
youtube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpGJOCPBdjU
Also grabbed a propeller P8X32 DIP pack bare chip, and suprised how few added support parts are required to whip-up a quick and super-cheap propeller
controller board. I connected the chip to computer to successfully test serial IO services with an extreme bare bones config...
The chip, some wires, and a single resistor...stood alone as a complete micro-controller entity ( an 8 core one at that)
its prolly smarter to get external crystal reference and the little eeprom and a 3.3v regulator to pretty much round out the essentials of a propeller board.
This propeller thing, with its multi cogs, is already intriguing me with possibilities as I learn a little about it.
Seems to be a path over and beyond current limitations of functionality when using single core arduinos, etc.
Theres a hotel and a maid armed with a vacuum cleaner..
Another similar hotel has 8 maids with vacuum cleaners...
I know which hotel does the vacuuming in much less time..lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpGJOCPBdjU