interesting experiment.

[Kerry Hoath]

Remember speech.com say and trans?
there was a version of tinytalk that could use the pc speaker as well.
I have programs for dos that play 11025hz mono 8-bit samples on the
speaker with surprising fidelity.
It depends on how good your pc speaker is too, many modern pcs
have a little pizzo thing. Remember the pc-speaker is a
square-wave generater that simply sets the speaker to +5v and 0v.
Do it fast enough and you can simulate  sounds using a
technique called pulse width modulation. You move the speaker so fast
it gets fooled into making far nicer sounds
than square waves.
On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 05:30:11PM -0400, Buddy Brannan wrote:
> Uhh. That would presuppose support for some software
> synthesizer. Let's get that before we start talking about putting
> anything through the PC speaker, unless of course we'd put morse code
> through the PC speaker...not a bad idea, IMO. But speech through it
> wouldn't be at all usable. Usable presupposes that one can at least
> understand what's coming out. ... The PC speaker just ain't good
> enough for that. Unless...again....we use morse code or something. If
> I was more smarter, I'd do that, too. ... :)
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