1987 - Ultra Sound - ASCII to speech converter & digitised speech videos

[ComSoft6128]

Video 1

A French sound utility by ESAT software adapted for the English speaking market and sold by Siren Software.

This particular program, though not shown in the main menu, was included on the Ultra Sound disc released by Siren Software.
It seemed apt that the first file it should display/speak in 32 years is the text instructions for the main Ultra Sound program.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iawR6HrymU

Links:

https://cpcrulez.fr/GamesTest//applications_music-esat_software-ultra_sound.htm

https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&onglet=notices&num=5067

http://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/Siren_Software#Software

https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=staff&lenom=E.S.A.T.%20Software

Not emulated - original hardware and software.
Please note that the aspect ratio for this YouTube video is 16:9 but the CPC monitor
has an aspect ratio of 4:3 so you may wish to adjust your viewing device accordingly.

[ComSoft6128]

Video 2

Ultra Sound digitised speech demo.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvowXDqXZfc&t=9s

[ComSoft6128]

Video 3
Ultra Sound loading screen and music.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmBDOVBwyNQ

Links:
https://cpcrulez.fr/GamesTest//applications_music-esat_software-ultra_sound.htm

https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&onglet=notices&num=5067

http://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/Siren_Software#Software

https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=staff&lenom=E.S.A.T.%20Software

Not emulated - original hardware and software.
Please note that the aspect ratio for this YouTube video is 16:9 but the CPC monitor
has an aspect ratio of 4:3 so you may wish to adjust your viewing device accordingly.

[ComSoft6128]

Video 4.

Magicsound (Soft Talk) - User-friendly keyboard input text to speech converter.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-pen01KLLk

Not emulated - original hardware and software.
Please note that the aspect ratio for this YouTube video is 16:9 but the CPC monitor
has an aspect ratio of 4:3 so you may wish to adjust your viewing device accordingly.

[LambdaMikel]

Very cool - finally I got to know where Roger Waters got the voice of Billy from in Radio Kaos !



https://youtu.be/VIBCPAWUEKM

[LambdaMikel]

@ComSoft6128  can you type in "Hello I am Billy I hear radio waves" please 

[ComSoft6128]

Will do when I am back in Glasgow at the weekend.................................

[remax]

That's the voice of Roland Radio Jingles, no ?

[ComSoft6128]

If not, should be

[LambdaMikel]

The Amstrad SSA-1 (SP0256-AL2) should be more representative / retro-authentic of CPC Speech Synthesizers IMHO... for the C64, you would use Magic Voice, and not Currah Speech for example...

[ComSoft6128]

As requested.


Sythesis



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRw1dUViIkY

[LambdaMikel]

 Excellent! You made a lot of Roger Waters fans very happy with that :-))) After "Hello I am Billy" there needs to be a longer pause though ;-) But that is REALLY REALLY close to Radio K.A.O.S Radio Waves!!

Anybody of you UK guys - can you get Roger Waters on the channel and make him comment on that, please?? 

[ComSoft6128]

A couple of fan sites state the voice was produced using a BBC master computer and "Speech!" (also available for the CPC) by Superior Software.

Links (worth reading!):

https://acorn.huininga.nl/pub/unsorted/manuals/Superior%20Software%27s%20%27%27Speech!%27%27.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_Software

https://cpcrulez.fr/applications_music-superior_software-speech_AA.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Master

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments_SN76489

[ComSoft6128]

Video 5

Fifth and final video - the Ultra Sound sound effects generator.

Ahh!   Listen to the nostalgia - I'm sure some of these sounds are identical to those from various games.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3k2qMxdwO7g&t=5s

Links:

https://cpcrulez.fr/GamesTest//applications_music-esat_software-ultra_sound.htm

https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&onglet=notices&num=5067

http://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/Siren_Software#Software

https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=staff&lenom=E.S.A.T.%20Software

Not emulated - original hardware and software.
Please note that the aspect ratio for this YouTube video is 16:9 but the CPC monitor
has an aspect ratio of 4:3 so you may wish to adjust your viewing device accordingly.