Collaborate Disseminate
You may not have heard, but there’s a chip shortage out there. And it’s not just the fancy new chips that are in short supply; the chips that were fancy …read more Continue reading RP2040 Emulator Brings the Voice of the 80s Back to Life
Being able to vocalize is one of the most essential elements of the human experience, with infants expected to start babbling their first words before they’re one year old, and …read more Continue reading Restoring a Person’s Voice Using a Brain-Computer Interface
Of the 43 muscles that comprise the human face, only a few are actually important to speaking. And yet replicating the movements of the mouth by mechanical means always seems to end up only partly convincing. Servos and linkages can only approximate the complex motions the lips, cheeks, jaw, and …read more
Continue reading This Animatronic Mouth Mimics Speech With Servos
If you listened to the National Weather Service Weather Radio in the US about 25 years ago, you’ll no doubt remember [Perfect Paul], one of the synthesized voices used to read current conditions and weather forecasts. The voice came from a DECtalk DTC01, a not inexpensive voice synthesizer first made …read more
Continue reading Vintage Speech Synthesizer Croons the Oldies