nelson_p@apollo.uucp (03/11/88)
>Does anybody have any experience with the Heathkit HV 2000. Mine seems to work >fine with the exception that I can not read from it, and retrieve the string of >mnemonic phonemes. I've been interested in buying a voice synthesizer board. I went to my local Heath/Zenith store to hear their's but they didn't have the board set up. However they did give me a demo of the one in their robot ('Hero'), which they assured me was the same circuitry. I was distinctly underwhelmed by the voice quality; it was practically un- intelligible. Is this the best it can do? Can anyone recommend a really good-sounding speech synthesizer, especially one that comes with some good text-to-speech software? Another question: I've noticed that 'parallel port' has a rather quaint meaning in the world of PC's: a Centronics-style mostly output only printer port. I am looking for a board that has some true (in the engineering sense) parallel ports. Something like an 8255 brought to the outside world so I could INPUT or OUTPUT any number of TTL - level lines. Something like that should be cheap and simple. Does anybody sell one? --Peter Nelson