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Thanks for this - it helped me do some easy validation of my text-to-speech program. I tried using a phrase made up of dictionary words in one table and one with the same text-to-speech words in another (by purposely renaming Phrasealator.Dic.) The text-to-speech version was almost as good.

 

On a related subject, I took relevant parts of your source (thanks again for this) and grafted it to Supercat's 16-character demo so one could enter speech (in hex) on a 2600 to play around with sounds. I spent several hours on it last night, and the speech works but unfortunately Supercat's demo doesn't work properly on my 4-switch. Since I can't post pics, to see the screenshot (taken with a cell phone; sorry about the poor quality) you'll have to follow the link below:

 

http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?a...ry&id=82313

 

Of course I won't give out the binary, working or not, without John's permission. If I can get it all working, I'll modify my text-to-speech program to output the codes in hex so they could be entered without needing to convert each number.

Of course I won't give out the binary, working or not, without John's permission. If I can get it all working, I'll modify my text-to-speech program to output the codes in hex so they could be entered without needing to convert each number.

 

If you like I'll revisit that code; it behaves differently in emulation from on a real 2600. If you ask really nicely I'll even let you have source code for it.

Of course I won't give out the binary, working or not, without John's permission. If I can get it all working, I'll modify my text-to-speech program to output the codes in hex so they could be entered without needing to convert each number.

 

If you like I'll revisit that code; it behaves differently in emulation from on a real 2600. If you ask really nicely I'll even let you have source code for it.

Pretty please?

 

But yeah, I've always liked this demo. I'd love to see it working on real hardware.