[aprssig] An amusing aside (Text Pagers)

[david vanhorn]

On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 10:46 PM, Scott Miller <scott at opentrac.org> wrote:

>  The aprs-tt would then either read back the packet to you (ie ai4px at
>> lat 34.xxx 80.xxx icon jogger, status off duty) or a simple "ai4px packet
>> accepted" in Majel Barret's voice of course.  Back in the 1980's General
>> Instruments made a text to speech chipset that would speak when ascii words
>> were fed to it.  Is there any comparable chip available today?  Most things
>> I see are the IVR store and playback chips.
>>
>
The Speakjet does this.
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