The Speaker is a software speech synthesizer for the Amstrad. It was published as a BASIC listing in French Magazine CPC Infos by Xavier Grossetete in 1991. This was based on a port of the Spectrum Speech program by Superior Software, published in 1986. The Speaker was then retyped by [https://norecess464.weebly.com/news/the-speaker-an-impressive-text-to-speech-program-for-the-amstrad-cpc NoRecess] in 2011 and distributed as a DSK file called -SAY.dsk.
The original code has been disassembled by [[CPSoft]] and has been converted into a ROM extensionformat.
The Z80 assembly source code will also be available to download.
=== Usage ===
Add SpeakerROM.rom to a ROM bank on your Amstrad emulator.
Type |SPEAK to view the usage instructions.
|SAY,"HELLO WORLD" - Say a phrase. The program converts the string into phonemes.
|RAW,"/HEH4/HEH3/HEH2/HEH1/" - Say a phrase without the program converting phonemes.
|SPEED,1-20 - Alter the speed of the speech
|CENTRE - Output speech using channel C
|LEFT - Output speech using channel A
|RIGHT - Output speech using channel B
== Still to do ==
* Functions to screen read text should be developed.
* Investigate if there is a way of outputting speech without disabling interrupts.
=== Download ===