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 Tad Painter	Amplifier unit allows complete control over speech volume. Works with 9V battery included.	Timex/Sinclair 1000, Timex/Sinclair 2068
Digitizing Hardware Tad Painter	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 Tad Painter	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) Tad Painter	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) Tad Painter	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 Tad Painter	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 Tad Painter	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 Tad Painter	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

Books

Periodicals

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 Tad Painter	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 Tad Painter	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 Tad Painter	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: 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	Software speech synthesizer for the TS1000 and TS2058.	Timex/Sinclair 1000, Timex/Sinclair 2068

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