V8600A Text to Speech Board

This voice synthesizer is a versatile, modular solution designed to satisfy just about any voice output requirement. The on-board RC8660 chipset enables the V8600A to automatically convert plain English or Spanish text into a high quality male voice. The size is 10.8 x 6.9cm and it only requires a 5V power supply and speaker to operate. It is an ideal solution for many applications ranging from robotics to telecommunications.

The V8600A interfaces directly with TDS2020F and TDS9092 computers using the microprocessor bus.

• Backwards compatible with original V8600 and V8601

• Converts any ASCII text into speech automatically

• Add/modify messages by simply editing a text file

• Requires only a single 5V supply and speaker

• 2K input buffer/16K non-volatile dictionary

• Software control of all voice parameters

• Musical and sinusoidal tone generators

• DTMF (Touch-Tone) dialer

• Store and play back wave files

• CMOS design - TTL compatible inputs and outputs

• Low power - 110mW active; 5mW idle; 250uW sleep

• Three built in interfaces:
  - Microprocessor bus
  - Asynchronous serial port
  - Parallel printer port

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