software speech for speakup

[Kirk Wood]

Well actually, the double talk right now as shipped takes a total of three
chips. One of these chips is for interfacing to either a serial or an ISA
slot. One holds the processor and one holds the data. All other devices on
the board are support for them.

All of this could easily fit in one of today's chips leaving room for
additional code and leaving more clock cycles then the processor a double
talk uses (8086). Now of course code would have to be developed. But I
would expect that a single chip solution could give double talk or better
and recieve flash upgrades. The chips are already on the market. You can
buy a 50 mips chip with on board flash rom for less then $20. The code for
direct connection to USB is given. It really isn't like it would be a huge
hardware project. It would mostly be a software (firmware) project.

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Kirk Wood
Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net

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