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Does anyone have Netronics Electric Mouth-1 S-100 Documentation?

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Hey hi!
I recently acquired an Electric Mouth-1 board, which utilizes the Digitalker MM54104 chip & two vocabulary ROMS, and have it installed on my Explorer 85. Documentation seems to be pretty scarce online. Any help would be super appreciated!
 

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I have an Australian S100 based Digitalker board and its design like yours is relatively straightforward. Generally, the digitalker can only address 2 ROMs at a time so a part of your board will be a ROM bank selection circuit. The digitalker itself is usually I/O address mapped and will say phrases as soon as an 8 bit value is output. Most likely the board will decode 2 I/O addresses on for the bank select and one for the digitalker. Be aware that the digitalker chip uses a 7 volt power.

Please post a photo of the rear side of the PCB so that the a schematic diagram can be drawn and more information provided.
 
7ych0 said:
Hey hi!
I recently acquired an Electric Mouth-1 board, which utilizes the Digitalker MM54104 chip & two vocabulary ROMS, and have it installed on my Explorer 85. Documentation seems to be pretty scarce online. Any help would be super appreciated!
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Hi,

Let me know if you want to part with the board. wperko ta brainless tod org

I have tons of stuff to trade including a SpeechBox with software ...


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wperko said:
Hi,

Let me know if you want to part with the board. wperko ta brainless tod org

I have tons of stuff to trade including a SpeechBox with software ...


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Wow! Very cool - I have Altair 8800 S/N 222699K, not too far from yours. Digging into your site & Mike Douglas' notes & will keep that in mind if the project doesn't go anywhere!
 
Got it working! Wrote a little test loop in BASIC w/ an OUT command to port number 48 which runs through the two vocabulary ROMS. No clue as to what the DIP switch settings mean on the Netronics board, but we have:
- SPK enabled for onboard speaker
- A7 enabled
- A6 enabled
- A5 disabled
- A4 disabled
- PRD enabled (what could this be?)
- NA(8) disabled

Seems to be happy at the moment. The goal is to get it connected to the Internet w/ the Chat GPT API, so you can talk to the thing. Now to make some more ROMS!
 

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Hi,

The sad truth about ChatGPT is that it doesn't know the phonemes for any of the speech chips I have (VOTRAX SC-01, SP-0256-AL2, SpeakJet, SoundGin etc. )

I tried, thinking it might be a shortcut to creating speech, but ChatGPT is pretty much clueless.


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wperko said:
Hi,

The sad truth about ChatGPT is that it doesn't know the phonemes for any of the speech chips I have (VOTRAX SC-01, SP-0256-AL2, SpeakJet, SoundGin etc. )

I tried, thinking it might be a shortcut to creating speech, but ChatGPT is pretty much clueless.


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Agreed - imagine we'd probably need a way to parse responses from GPT to relevant commands, and could probably use AI to write the code, given a comprehensive list of the vocabulary / allophones. Maybe in a few weeks GPT will know more. The speed of progress reminds me of this:
 
wperko said:
Hi,

Let me know if you want to part with the board. wperko ta brainless tod org

I have tons of stuff to trade including a SpeechBox with software ...


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Question: Is the Altair running the speech synthesis w/ panel lights simultaneously here? Super cool if so.
 
7ych0 said:
Question: Is the Altair running the speech synthesis w/ panel lights simultaneously here? Super cool if so.
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Hi,

Yes, the little SpeechBox takes RS-232 serial data at 9600 8N1 BAUD to talk an sing in almost any language. Somebody that knows Klingon might even make it talk in that language.

It's easy to create the program data:


This is the MBASIC program to send the data to the SpeechBox ... all you do is swap out the data in the end statements ... maybe change line 30 and 40 for your serial port addresses:

0 REM SPEECH2.BAS

10 REM EDIT THE NEXT LINES TO DEFINE THE DATA AND STATUS PORTS
20 REM THIS IS SET UP FOR ALTAIR SIO ON PORT 0/1
30 CTL=18
40 DAT=19
50 REM FOLLOWING IS MASK AND VALUE FOR STATUS
60 RCV=1:RV=1
70 REM ANI XMT, CPI XV (RCV/RV)
80 XMT=2:XV=2
90 REM JUMP TO MAIN
100 GOTO 290
110 REM DELAY ROUTINE
120 REM EDIT THE FOLLOWING LINE TO INCREASE OR DECREASE THE DELAY
130 FOR X=1 TO 500:NEXT X
140 RETURN
150 REM INPUT DATA FROM PORT (WAIT FOR DATA AVAILABLE)
160 W=INP(CTL):IF (W AND RCV) <> RV GOTO 160
170 V=INP(DAT)
180 RETURN
190 REM OUTPUT VALUE TO PORT - WAIT FOR DATA READY
200 W=INP(CTL):IF (W AND XMT) <> XV GOTO 200
210 OUT DAT,V
220 RETURN
230 REM ROUTINE TO PROCESS GROUP
240 READ V:IF V = -1 THEN RETURN
250 GOSUB 200:GOTO 240
290 REM MAIN - READ AND OUTPUT GROUP, THEN DELAY
300 READ G
310 FOR J=1 TO G
320 GOSUB 240
330 GOSUB 130
340 NEXT
345 GOTO 30
350 REM FIRST NUMBER IS NUMBER OF GROUPS
360 REM EACH GROUP IS DATA, FOLLOWED BY -1
370 DATA 4
500 DATA 20,96,21,114,22,125,23,5,22,135,157,22,125,132,132,140,22,120,132,132,1
41,-1
510 DATA 20,96,21,114,22,125,23,5,22,130,8,132,145,8,191,8,150,22,125,194,134,14
0,7,198,7,160,191,133,148,-1
520 DATA 20,96,21,114,22,125,23,5,22,130,157,22,125,145,7,136,7,155,196,22,120,8
,191,162,22,125,199,7,145,131,154,-1
530 DATA 20,96,21,114,22,125,23,5,22,120,170,154,22,125,8,187,8,129,196,8,178,15
4,140,167,-1
540 DATA 20,96,21,114,22,125,23,5,22,130,157,22,125,183,8,132,166,22,120,132,132
,141,-1
550 DATA 20,96,21,114,22,125,23,5,22,135,8,129,8,141,22,125,191,131,145,-1
560 DATA 20,96,21,114,22,125,23,5,22,125,154,4,191,128,154,4,191,128,198,148,135
,187,131,187,153,-1
570 DATA 20,96,21,114,22,125,23,5,22,135,8,191,162,22,125,178,129,178,135,8,183,
148,191,187,-1
580 DATA 20,96,21,114,22,125,23,5,22,125,8,129,167,8,135,8,146,22,135,157,22,125
,141,8,128,176,-1
590 DATA 20,96,21,114,22,125,23,5,22,125,8,191,162,140,154,196,8,160,22,135,8,18
3,132,132,132,22,125,8,198,128,-1
600 DATA 20,96,21,114,22,125,23,5,22,135,157,22,125,145,7,136,7,155,196,8,129,8,
191,22,120,185,8,131,8,141,8,160,-1
610 DATA 20,96,21,114,22,125,23,5,22,120,8,191,151,141,140,128,128,22,130,8,135,
135,22,115,8,141,-1
620 DATA 20,96,21,114,22,125,23,5,22,135,157,22,120,147,134,167,22,115,171,6,137
,148,141,-1
630 DATA 20,96,21,114,22,125,23,5,22,125,6,8,129,8,141,22,135,8,7,191,7,147,131,
141,7,191,128,-1
640 DATA 20,96,21,114,22,125,23,5,22,135,8,7,191,7,147,131,141,7,191,128,22,125,
147,14,136,8,141,-1
1000 DATA 20,96,21,114,22,88,23,5,22,196,8,8,155,2,2,132,132,140,6,132,132,141,6
,22,185,8,132,8,145,22,147,8,191,150,-1
1010 DATA 20,96,21,114,22,88,23,5,22,147,157,6,22,175,132,132,140,6,154,128,6,19
5,135,140,22,165,198,160,22,131,191,137,148,-1
1020 DATA 20,96,21,114,22,88,23,5,22,131,157,140,22,156,6,183,149,132,8,191,128,
153,22,147,8,6,198,8,145,131,6,22,117,8,167,148,-1
1030 DATA 20,96,21,114,22,123,23,5,22,110,8,188,7,164,7,147,145,131,191,187,22,1
23,199,7,145,131,154,22,98,154,128,22,110,8,178,154,140,-1
1040 DATA 20,96,21,114,22,88,23,5,22,196,8,8,155,2,2,132,132,140,6,132,132,141,6
,22,185,8,132,8,145,22,147,8,191,150,-1
1050 DATA 20,96,21,114,22,88,23,5,22,147,157,6,22,175,132,132,140,6,154,128,6,19
5,135,140,22,165,198,160,22,131,191,137,148,-1
1060 DATA 20,96,21,114,22,88,23,5,22,131,157,140,22,156,6,183,149,132,8,191,128,
153,22,147,8,6,198,8,145,131,6,22,117,8,167,148,-1
1070 DATA 20,96,21,114,22,88,23,5,22,110,8,188,7,164,7,147,145,131,191,187,22,12
3,199,7,145,131,154,22,110,154,128,22,98,8,178,154,140,-1


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