[Coco] SSC discussion

[S Klammer]

... oh, and the SSC did have the much more useful 3 voice, waveform
adjustable sound...

Shain
On Oct 10, 2014 9:20 PM, "S Klammer" <sklammer at gmail.com> wrote:

> Couldn't agree more Brian.  The voice chip on the TI-99/4 series was
> vastly better (they did do the Speak&Spell, etc) and I still enjoy playing
> Parsec (once upon a time, I programmed a CC2 clone I'd called Distac7)...
> but, it would only say words from its internal vocabulary and not use the
> phonetic creation that the SSC did (although there may have been a
> subsequent revision which did).
>
> Shain
> On Oct 10, 2014 8:48 PM, "Brian Blake" <random.rodder at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Way back when Cris Egger still had the CoCo Hut website going,  I was
>> working on an article for the website and Mary's now defunct e-zine,
>> comparing the Ti-99/4a to the CoCo line.
>>
>> It was a fairly in depth article that was starting to expand to a few
>> other
>> systems, when it came to comparing speech packs. The hardware I had on
>> hand
>> was the CoCo line and SSC, and the Ti and is speech adapter.
>>
>> The Ti speech pack soundly trounced the CoCo unit - badly - in the
>> comparison. So much so, that I put the SSC back in its package and played
>> Parsec for a few days. The sampled voices on Sundog Systems Sinistaar was
>> far better than anything I could get out of the SSC.
>>
>> I've got a Real Talker cart I haven't been able to test yet, and I'd like
>> to see what some of the other CoCo speech carts can do. To me, the SSC has
>> its place - in a package on a collectors shelf, never to be duplicated in
>> new hardware.
>>
>> If course this might just be the ramblings of my cynical side....
>>
>> Brian
>>
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