[unix-pc.general] VOICE POWER boards -- What are their limitations?

lenny@icus.UUCP (Lenny Tropiano) (06/23/88)

I'm interested in the capabilities of the VOICE POWER boards.  Firstly,
where can one get it fairly inexpensive.  I hate spending loads of money
for a machine that is no longer an AT&T product.  I've called places they
quote as high as $1300 and as low as $800.  Is anyone selling one used?
Or the possibility of trading for an used DOS-73 board?  Who knows?

What can it do?  Does it come with the software so you can program it
yourself?  What kind of programming libraries does it come with and 
what is it's limitations?   How hard would it be writing your own
software and not spend the money on the voice-mail, answering machine, etc..
software.

Is anyone actually using these things?  Let me know.  I would like to
hear from you!

-Lenny
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thad@cup.portal.com (07/02/88)

Lenny,

Are the VOICE POWER boards just a voice synthesizer, or something that has
an ADC for one to do speech recognition?

If you want a voice synthesizer, I have some used Votrax Type 'N Talks that
could be connected to a serial port for speech synthesis (sounds good *IF*
you use the phoneme codes directly); E-mail me if interested.

lenny@icus.UUCP (Lenny Tropiano) (07/04/88)

In article <7038@cup.portal.com> thad@cup.portal.com writes:
|>Lenny,
|>
|>Are the VOICE POWER boards just a voice synthesizer, or something that has
|>an ADC for one to do speech recognition?
...

The VOICE POWER boards don't do speech recognition, at least as far as I
know.  It does do audio digitization, therefore using an analog-to-digital
converter plus a variety of support chips.  Gil Kloepfer (gil@limbic) and I 
are tinkering with our own ideas of a "homemade-VOICE-POWER" board.

-Lenny
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