Text-to-Speech Module - Emic 2 [DEV-11711] - (AD27365)

Description:

Ever wished your project could talk and tell you what’s going on? Why not give it a voice? The Emic-2 Text-to-Speech Module makes it extremely easy to give your embedded projects a voice.

The Emic-2 was designed by Parallax in collaboration with Grand Idea Studio to make speech synthesis a simple tool. Simply connect the Emic-2 to a 5VDC power supply, connect a speaker to the speaker output (or to the 3.1mm headphone jack), and send it a serial stream of text at 9600 bps. The module contains all the intelligence needed to parse text into phonemes and generate natural-sounding speech; the host controller only has to send serial strings.

The module’s command set is entirely comprised of printable ASCII characters and allows for changing languages (English or Spanish), toggling between 9 different voices, and even controlling speech parameters on the fly. The module also communicates back to your system so you can get configuration, version information, and even "speech-complete" indicators from the board.

If you’ve ever considered building a robot that sings your Twitter or wakes you up in the morning with random snippets of beat poetry, this is the way to do it!

Features:

• Single-row 0.1" header for easy connection to a host system
• Power Requirements: +5 VDC
• 30 mA idle
• 46-220 mA active (depending on speech parameters and output load)
• Communication: 9600 bps asynchronous serial (8N1)
• 3.17 x 3.81 x 0.94 cm (1.25" x 1.5" x 0.37")

Documents:

• Schematic
• User Guide
• Example Code
• Product Page
• Product Video
• Project Tutorial