Tad Painter
Irving, TX 75016
Tad produced software and hardware for the Timex computers to support digitizing and playing back voice samples. His speech synthesizer software played back pre-recorded word samples.
He later went on to make products for the Atari ST computers as Seymor-Radix. On Seymor-Radix product digitized images through an optical sensor attached to the print head on the user’s printer.
Products
| Name | Description | Computers |
|---|---|---|
| Amplifier Unit for TS Computers | Amplifier unit allows complete control over speech volume. Works with 9V battery included. | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Digitizing Hardware | Hardware for 2068 owners to create their own vocabularies. Plugs into ear socket. Spoken words are digitized and stored in memory automatically. Allows for an unlimited vocabulary. Can digitize other sounds as well as special effects. | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Downloadable |
| Filtered Connector Plug | Filtered connector plug conditions speech signal for use with external amplifiers such as AUO1. Plugs between MIC and amp. Internal speaker may be disabled by program if desired. | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Speech Synthesizer (1000/1500) | Scaled down version of speech synthesizer for TS 2068. Consists of same vocabularies with less programmability. Uses a fast machine language program. Sound is heard through TV speaker or through an external amplifier plugged into the MIC jack. Includes eleven programs, two demonstration and nine libraries. Each library contains twenty to thirty words. No additional | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Timex/Sinclair 1500, Downloadable |
| Speech Synthesizer (2068) | Machine language program, multiple vocabularies, flexible memory requirements, very intelligible. Nine programs include 273 high quality digitized words in variable length cells. Words can be played back in any order under program control. Each library contains seventy to eighty words or phrases. Sound is heard through the TS 2068’s internal speaker and is available at | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Downloadable |
| Talking Alarm Clock for TS2068 | Full function alarm clock announces time at selectable intervals. The alarm will BEEP and announce the time for two minutes or until turned off. The screen is set up with both analog (hands) and digital displays for high visibility. Perfect for when your computer is just sitting around between uses. No additional software or hardware | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Talking Biorhythm for TS2068 | Study biorhythms with this talking program. Plots physical, emotional, and intellectual graphs for any time in the future or past for any person. Can help you learn to predict your peaks and lows. Verbally prompts for dates and announces number of days lived. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Talking Space Zap | Zap as many enemy ships as possible without running out of energy. Verbal messages let you know how you are doing. There are ten levels of play ranging from very easy to very difficult. Uses joystick or keyboard to aim and shoot lasers. Secret tactics let you gain an advantage, if you can figure them | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
Documents
| Title | Description | Computers |
|---|---|---|
| Listing: Speech Synthesizer COMPILE | Program to compile libraries of words for Speech Synthesizer. | |
| Listing: Speech Synthesizer DEMO | Demonstration of Speech Synthesizer. | |
| Listing: Speech Synthesizer SPKSUB | Subroutines for Speech Synthesizer. | |
| Speech Synthesizer (2068) Word Lists | Reference sheet listing the word library for Tad Painter’s Speech Synthesizer for the TS-2068, showing all available phonemes and pre-defined words. | |
| Speech Synthesizer for Timex 2068 instructions | This speech synthesizer system for the TIMEX 2068 computer is a software utility which allows you to write your own talking BASIC programs. Nine programs are included on the cassette. Six of these are libraries of words from which sentences can be compiled. There will be a BASIC program and a word library in all | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Speech Synthesizer Word Libraries | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| Speech Synthesizers for Timex Computers | The speech synthesizers for TIMEX 2068 and 1500/1000 computers are sets of nine and eleven programs written in both machine code and BASIC. Digitized words are stored in variable length cells and can be played back under program control in any order. Sound is heard through the internal speaker or MIC jack on the TS | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Tad Painter Documents | Collection of documents from Tad Painter including speech synthesizer word lists and related materials for Timex/Sinclair computers. |
Downloads
| Name | Description | Computers |
|---|---|---|
| HS68 Driver | A BASIC-driven speech synthesis editor lets you record, arrange, and play back a digitized word library stored in high memory, complete with a waveform browser. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Speech Synthesizer | A complete speech synthesizer toolkit featuring a dramatic counting demo, free-text sentence input, and a multi-library word compiler that merges speech data blocks in high memory. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Speech Synthesizer | Hidden inside a REM statement, over 2KB of machine code drives a complete speech synthesis library — discover how BASIC and Z80 code combine to make a computer talk. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
Articles
| Title | Description | Computers |
|---|---|---|
| Bits and Pieces | News about Sinclair Research Ltd., two Timex-based BBSes join FidoNet, SOFTAID fundraising cassette, update on Timex Portugal. Shorter updates on MSCRIPT, RMG Enterprises, an RS-232 interface from Edward Loxterkamp, speech software from Tad Painter, software from Frank Lockhart, Jim Clatfelter and Peter McMullin. | |
| For Your Support | Column announcing hardware, software for Timex/Sinclair owners. Products from Bruce Taylor, Fred Nachbaur, Tom Woods, John Oliger, Jack Donahy, 21st Century Electronics, Zebra Systems, Steve Wyatt, G. Russell Electronics and Tad Painter listed. | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| REVIEW: TS1000 Speech Synthesizer | Finally, a speech synthesis program has come of age for us TS1000 users. It is also easy to use and affordable. The speech synthesis package consists of a 2K demonstration, which speaks “I am your computer” in repetition, a biorythym prediction program which also speaks your age based on your birthdate and the day’s date | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Review: TS2068 Speech Synthesizer | Same as the TS1000 reviewed in Fall 1985 issue with enhancements based on the greater power of the TS2068. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Speech Synthesizer for the TS-1000 | Now I’ve heard everything! A computer that talks back to me? why not…everybody else does! Tad Painter has done the “unheard” of by digitizing the human voice for T/S computers. His SPEECH SYNTHESIZER program does the job without the need for expensive additional hardware. It’s all software generated. SPEECH SYNTHESIZER is available for the TS | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Timex/Sinclair 2068 |