Fun with Speak and Spell

MIDIfication
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I just picked up a Speak and Spell and a Speak and Math.  Has anyone interfaced Midibox hardware with these things?

Davo

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Has anyone interfaced Midibox hardware with these things?

I dont think so, but i’ve never heard of it, but it should not be complicated !!

Are you going to start with ?

If you need help, i’m your men !  ;D

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I’m not exactly sure what this is, but have you seen the SpeakJet WikiEntry/Thread?

Cheers,

Michael

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I’ll probably end up building something like that Speakjet thing for my voice-synthesis fooling around.  But, hey, I was at a thrift store and the S&S was there for only a few bucks.

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I searched for this and found

http://www.speaknspell.co.uk/ (with flash simulator) and

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speak_%26_Spell_%28toy%29 and from there on

to the chipCollection http://smithsonianchips.si.edu/texas/t_074.htm

I think I have seen some webpage that midified this thing… now I only have to find it again.. searching… searching… searching… foundit! :slight_smile:

http://highlyliquid.com/kits/midispeak/

so this is definitely possible, one just has to find out how the sound generator chips work (TMC0281 Speech Synthesizer and a derivative of the TMS1000 microprocessor) and how to communicate with them.

Cheers,

ac

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Hi,

http://experimentalistsanonymous.com/diy/Schematics/Circuit%20Bending%20and%20Modifications/

Here is a good tutorial about the speak & “hacking” spell!

( nothing about midification, but funny!!! )

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on this type subject,I was thinking the same for a casio sk 1 or 5,with lcd, ? filter chip?

Any help,links would be awsome.Cool thread!

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I’ve seen these MIDI’fied using MIDI to trigger converters. Presumably you could rig up a trigger matrix to trigger the buttons remotely. I guess that’s how i’d go about doing it anyway.

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I’ve seen these MIDI’fied using MIDI to trigger converters. Presumably you could rig up a trigger matrix to trigger the buttons remotely. I guess that’s how i’d go about doing it anyway.

I have moded sk 5 with midi,

would be cool to have lcd,that ran with buttons

example , lcd says piano when piano is activatied

or  sampling * * * * *

wihen sampling is activated..

possible..ideas?

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The MIDISpeak board is pretty cool. I have several. Highlyliquid also do MIDI-relay boxes to allow sequencer-driven control of circuit-bent toys, synths etc.

Alex

http://www.toneburst.net

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No one has done interface with midibox, it is possible but I recommend seeing what highlyliquid has to offer in terms of midi -> SnS

You could use a midibox to send midi to the SnS, and I’m sure you could come up with a super-cool panel layout to control it as well!

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I talked to the maker of midispeak a while ago, check out this page. This is all he needed to figure it out.

http://members.tripod.com/werdav/speakell.html

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I love that picture  ;D