These resonance frequencies are known as formants. I would love to see someone recreate this and learn how to play it. By varying the capacitance, resistance and inductance of the circuit he could produce a series of vowel-like sounds probably the very first example of circuit bending. His circuit consisted of a buzzer to simulate the vocal cords and a pair of oscillators to simulate the resonance of the mouth and throat. It was capable of saying such interesting things as mama, anna, wow-wow, and yi-yi.
While mechanical speech synthesis dates back to the 18th century, the first successful attempt based on electronics was 'An Electrical Analogue of the Vocal Organs' by John Q. Source code at A Brief History of Speech Synthesis Make your 2600 talk! Sing! Say rude words!Īdd voice to your own games and relive the glory days when computer speech had a charming personality and bounded intelligibility.
SAM2600 A software speech synthesizer for the Atari 2600.
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