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excerpt: "Here is a 'term paper' written by one of my students who tackled the job of interfacing the Votrax SC-01A chip to his TS1000. He is presently working on a nice 'menu driven' program, similar to that described for the Parrot, which will give him a lot more versatility."
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# Votrax Speech Synthesizer

Here is a ‘term paper’ written by one of my students who tackled the job of interfacing the Votrax SC-01A chip to his TS1000. He is presently working on a nice ‘menu driven’ program, similar to that described for the Parrot, which will give him a lot more versatility.