Talker/80 for the TRS-80 Model 1, 3, and 4

Woohoo!

Talker/80 is a winner - of the 2020 TRS-80 Double-Do Competition! Check out the December 2020 issue of Dusty's fabulous fanzine. As always, TRS8BIT is a great read and I am always looking forward to the next issue. Many thanks to Dusty and the Competition Committee for this great recognition and price.

10/24/2020: I gave a talk about Talker/80 on TrashTalk Live #8: The INPs and OUTs of Talker/80, A Modern Voice Synthesizer for the TRS-80. Thanks to Pete Cetinski (TrashTalk host) and Arno Puder (known for his TRS-IO) for inviting me; here is the PDF of the presentation.

Check out the updates in the Github repo - the Model 3 / Model 4 version has been designed and is working.

After a first positive intiial review from the first Talker/80 customer

http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?74036-Talker-80-New-Voice-Synthesizer-in-the-Making/page4

I am daring to publish the sources and Gerbers. They are in the GitHub by now. Enjoy!

Talker/80 got 1.185 likes for Hackster's Instagram post :-) 

The final YouTube video for this project in online:

- Spanish Speaking

- DECtalk Singing from BASIC

- and a version of Jeff Shrager's Eliza from "Creative Computing" that I extended with DECtalk speech - sounds much better than the TRS Talking Eliza one.

A first version of the README / instructions / manual have been published on the project GitHub:

https://github.com/lambdamikel/Talker-80

GitHub repo created. To be populated soon!

https://github.com/lambdamikel/Talker-80

The first "mini batch" is ready and will be sent to BETA TESTERS soon!

So far I have a 100% success rate of assembling these - with LambdaSpeak 3, the rate was lower.