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• Manufacturer Part Number: 30016-RT
• Description: Audio IC Development Tools Emic 2 Text-2-Speech Module RETAIL PKG
• Manufacturer: Parallax

A large archive of songs intended for use with the DECtalk 4.40 or earlier text-to-speech synthesizer
engine can be found at www.theflameofhope.co/SONGS.html. Some commands and/or phonemes used
in the text strings may need to be modified in order to work properly with the newer DECtalk 5.0.E1
version implemented by Emic 2.
Special Characters
Emic
2
expects
characters
that
conform
to
the
ISO-8859-1
Latin
character
set
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-1). Along with standard alphanumeric characters, the
character set also contains accents, symbols, and foreign characters (ranging from 0xA0 to 0xFF) that
may not have specific keyboard keys assigned to them.
Emic 2 provides an easy method to enter single-byte hexadecimal character codes from any host by using
an escape sequence “\xhh” (where hh is two hex digits). For example, to use the letter ñ (n-tilde, which
has a hexadecimal value of 0xF1), enter the text “\xF1” within your text string.
On the Windows operating system, if the desired character is unavailable on your keyboard, you can
insert the character directly by pressing a special key combination: Hold down the ALT key and enter the
four digit decimal equivalent of the character in the numeric keypad section of the keyboard. For
example, for the letter ñ (n-tilde), press ALT-0241.
On the Mac OS X operating system, most of the special character codes in its default MacRoman
character set are not compatible with the ISO-8859-1 character set. Thus, if you try to enter special
characters directly from a keyboard using OS X, Emic 2 may return an error or speak characters you were
not expecting. In this case, it is recommended to use the above-mentioned escape sequence.
Other operating systems may also support direct insertion of special characters. Please refer to the
specific operating system documentation for details.
Sample Text Strings
This section contains sample text strings that demonstrate the configurability and varied speech outputs
of the Emic 2 Text-to-Speech Module. To use, first ensure that the correct parser is selected. Then, copy
the desired text string and pass it to Emic 2 with the “S” command.
Epson Parser
All 9 voices in a single text string
My Emic has a :-)0 voice :-)1 voice :-)2 voice :-)3 voice:-)4 voice :-)5 voice:-)6 voice :-)7 voice:-)8 voice.
English Introduction
(Built-in demonstration message #0)
:-)0 Hello everyone. My name is Emic 2. I am the next generation text-to-speech module created by
Grand Idea Studio. I can ##whisper ##very ##quietly. I can change to 1 of 9 voices. For example, from
Paul :-)1 to Harry :-)4 to Dennis :-)8 to Wendy. :-)0 I can also /\/\ increase my pitch. /\/\ And increase
my pitch again. >>>> Then speak faster >>>> and even faster >>>> and even faster again.
<<<<<<<<<<<< \/\/\/\/ And then go back to normal.
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