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Rogue Soul

Having a bit of a box sort today. Just the tip of the iceberg... I keep finding Speccy's I forgot I had 🤦‍♂️. Send help!

A collection of vintage (and reproduction) boxed computers and accessories. Including: ZX Spectrum +3, Commodore 64C, Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Sinclair ZX80, 1541 Floppy Disk, Memopak 16k, 16k ZX Memory Expansion for ZX81, Dragon 32, and a ZX Spectrum Lightgun.
A collection of vintage boxed computers, including Commodore 64C, Sinclair ZX Spectrum, ZX Interface 1, ZX Interface 2, Amiga 500, Sinclair ZX Spectrum +2, Sinclair ZX Spectrum+ and more.
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Mar 12, 2023, 09:10 PM·Public
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benklaasen

@roguesoul
That #Dragon32 is an underrated gem. I first heard sampled speech on a friend's Dragon32 around 1983. I've no idea how it was achieved.

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Rogue Soul

@benklaasen I wonder if your friend had a Sound Extension or Expansion pack plugged in? youtube.com/watch?v=Efx2VeGiHu

I only picked up this particular Dragon32 last year (I missed out on it back in the day... brought up on Speccy's and BBC Micros). But hoping to learn much more about it when it's fully up and running and restored!

YouTubeDemo of a Dragon 32 and a TRS-80 Speech-Sound Pak 26-3144By Tony Jewell
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benklaasen

@roguesoul sorry for the slow response - only got to watch the vid now. That's fascinating (and reminds me that the Dragon32 had much in common with the TRS-80), but I remember hearing something different - a clip of a few seconds of barely comprehensible speech. It wasn't interactive and it wasn't built from phonemes. Now I'll have to go off and see if I can dig up any references to it!

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benklaasen

@roguesoul
OK, there's a reference in the "fire your imagination" brochure to something called the "Dragon COMPUTAVOICE program": gondolin.org.uk/hchof/related/

I'll have to have a further rummage to see if I can turn up source code or a binary! I have no idea in what format that software was made available.

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