Games that made use of Acorn Speech synthesiser

aferenbach · Post by **aferenbach** » Sat Dec 08, 2007 12:49 pm

Hi all

Citing the one example i am aware of - when you complete Beach Head by US Gold then you get "you won" (technically U 1) from the speaker.

Has anyone else spotted games which use this upgrade?

NOTE - I do not mean Superior software's Speech! which featured in Repton 2 and Citadel.

Also do any current emulators do an emulation of this upgrade?

Andrew

Kecske Bak · Post by **Kecske Bak** » Sat Dec 08, 2007 2:07 pm

"DeathStar" is probably the most famous example.

Dreamland Fantasy · Post by **Dreamland Fantasy** » Sat Dec 08, 2007 4:15 pm

As Kecske Bak says DeathStar (or Sinistar as I know it) is probably the most famous example.

Kind regards,

Francis.

sorvad · Post by **sorvad** » Sat Dec 08, 2007 6:11 pm

BeebEm has had the speech upgrade for some time.

Kecske Bak · Post by **Kecske Bak** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 9:17 am

There was a several page article in "Personal Computer World" about the Acorn Speech Upgrade, that was published when it was first released, which included the whole phoneme list and included a lot of details technical details about it.

Dreamland Fantasy · Post by **Dreamland Fantasy** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 1:04 pm

Kecske Bak wrote:There was a several page article in "Personal Computer World" about the Acorn Speech Upgrade, that was published when it was first released, which included the whole phoneme list and included a lot of details technical details about it.

I remember that one. I used to have that article in a folder actually until my Dad got rid of all our BBC stuff. There were a lot of interesting and very probably now rare stuff in that folder covering various BBC magazine articles and instruction manuals. Since I've got back into the BBC I've been regretting getting rid of it.

Kind regards,

Francis.

snark · Post by **snark** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 7:57 pm

Overdrive used to announce the start of the stages with the stage number AFAIR.

Any more out there?

CMcDougall · Post by **CMcDougall** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 1:51 pm

"welcome to the world of exile"

Exile, all versions

sorvad · Post by **sorvad** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 3:19 pm

Wasn't that just sampled speech ? not using the Acorn speech chipset ?

Kecske Bak · Post by **Kecske Bak** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 3:22 pm

sorvad wrote:Wasn't that just sampled speech ? not using the Acorn speech chipset ?

Yes, that's right. Like Bonecruncher, it was just a sample.

Post by **Arcadian** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 4:41 pm

Seem to recall Kenneth muttering 'Press Return to Start' on the title screen for 'Wizzy's Mansion' ?!

g7jjf · Post by **g7jjf** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 4:48 pm

Many moons ago, (last version dated 27th Dec 1983), I wrote a pants version of Cubert (which I called Herbert) which talked to you using the Acorn Speech System.

I could make it available for download if anyone wants a laff.

Jon.

sorvad · Post by **sorvad** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 7:25 pm

Sounds good to me

I'd like a look

g7jjf · Post by **g7jjf** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 7:44 pm

OK, download it from :

http://www.g7jjf.com/bbcprogs/herbert.zip

Please remember, it only runs on a BBC Model B, preferably with the speech interface fitted (or use BeebEm).

And it's only written in Basic, not super fast machine code, so don't expect anything brill.

Jon.

sorvad · Post by **sorvad** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 7:59 pm

Hey, that's great. Very impressed, looks good too.