[Coco] SSC discussion

[S Klammer]

Couldn't agree more Brian.  The voice chip on the TI-99/4 series was vastly
better (they did do the Speak&Spell, etc) and I still enjoy playing Parsec
(once upon a time, I programmed a CC2 clone I'd called Distac7)... but, it
would only say words from its internal vocabulary and not use the phonetic
creation that the SSC did (although there may have been a subsequent
revision which did).

Shain
On Oct 10, 2014 8:48 PM, "Brian Blake" <random.rodder at gmail.com> wrote:

> Way back when Cris Egger still had the CoCo Hut website going,  I was
> working on an article for the website and Mary's now defunct e-zine,
> comparing the Ti-99/4a to the CoCo line.
>
> It was a fairly in depth article that was starting to expand to a few other
> systems, when it came to comparing speech packs. The hardware I had on hand
> was the CoCo line and SSC, and the Ti and is speech adapter.
>
> The Ti speech pack soundly trounced the CoCo unit - badly - in the
> comparison. So much so, that I put the SSC back in its package and played
> Parsec for a few days. The sampled voices on Sundog Systems Sinistaar was
> far better than anything I could get out of the SSC.
>
> I've got a Real Talker cart I haven't been able to test yet, and I'd like
> to see what some of the other CoCo speech carts can do. To me, the SSC has
> its place - in a package on a collectors shelf, never to be duplicated in
> new hardware.
>
> If course this might just be the ramblings of my cynical side....
>
> Brian
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