Voice synthesis application
The military detection assessment laboratoy at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque (SNLA) houses an experimental field system which assesses different alarm indicators such as fence disturbance sensors, MILES cables, and microwave Racons. It was necessary to purchase for this system a speech synthesis board which could be interfaced, by means of a computer, to an alarm logger making verbal acknowledgement of alarms possible. Different products and different types of voice synthesis were analyzed before we settled on a linear predictive code device produced by Telesensory Speech Systems of Palo Alto, California. This device is called the Speech 1000 Board and has a dedicated 8085 processor. A multiplexer card was designed and the Sp 1000 interfaced through the card into a TMS 990/100M Texas Instrument microcomputer. It was also necessary to design the software with the capability of recognizing and flagging an alarm on any 1 of 32 possible lines. The experimental field system was then packaged with a dc power supply, LED indicators, speakers, and switches. It was then deployed in the field and has performed reliably.
- Research Organization:
- Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (USA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC04-76DP00789
- OSTI ID:
- 5221635
- Report Number(s):
- SAND-82-0415; ON: DE82015482
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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