* [[MEA8000 Voice Generator]]
The MEA8000 is a Speech Synthesizer chip. It is a French equivalent to the [[SPO256]] speech chip. == Overview ==
With some clever programming it The MEA8000 is possible to program a software Speech Synthesizer chip. It contains a Voice Generator similar to that used in the [[SP0256]] speech chip. However, unlike the SP0256, it doesn't contain a built-in microprocessor, nor built-in ROM. To output an allophone, one must send one (or usually more) 32bit packet(s) to the chip. This is making it more complicated to use than the SP0256 (which needs only one 8bit value per allophone). On the other hand, it's making the MEA8000 more flexible: The SP0256 contains predefined allophones (usually the -AL2 english allophone set), whilst the MEA8000 can be freely used with good resultsdifferent allophone sets (english, french, other languages) (or even as general purpose sound processor, ie. to produce music or explosions, etc.)
== Hardware Speech Synthesisers ==
[[Amstrad SSA-1 Speech Synthesizer]] ([[SPO256SP0256]] based)
[[Dk'tronics Speech Synthesizer]] ([[SPO256SP0256]] based)
[[TMPI speech synthetizer]] ([[MEA8000 ]] based)
== Software Speech synthesisers ==
With some clever programming it is possible to program a software Speech Synthesizer with good results.
[[Speech]] (Symbos software)