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* [http://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=4660 ''TMPI Speech Synthesizer'' from CPC-Power] | * [http://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=4660 ''TMPI Speech Synthesizer'' from CPC-Power] | ||
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* http://vesta.homelinux.free.fr/site/wiki/cpc6128_amstrad.html - TMPI Speech Details (French) | * http://vesta.homelinux.free.fr/site/wiki/cpc6128_amstrad.html - TMPI Speech Details (French) | ||
* http://vesta.homelinux.free.fr/site/wiki/le_synthetiseur_vocal_mea_8000.html - MEA8000 Chip Details (French) | * http://vesta.homelinux.free.fr/site/wiki/le_synthetiseur_vocal_mea_8000.html - MEA8000 Chip Details (French) | ||
[[Category:Peripherals]] [[Category:Music and sound]] [[Category:Manual]] | [[Category:Peripherals]] [[Category:Music and sound]] [[Category:Manual]] | ||
Latest revision as of 05:39, 17 September 2020
A speech synthesizer made by TechniMusique et Parole Informatique (TMPI).
Contents
Technical Specs.
I/O ports (as used by the included disk software):
FBFEh TMPI Speech MEA8000 Data Register FBFFh TMPI Speech MEA8000 Command/Status Register
- Caution - As seen in the schematic, only A0..A7 seem to be decoded, but A8..A15 aren't. If that is true, then the device can conflict with almost all other existing hardware, including important internal components: Gate Array, CRTC, ROM Bank, Printer Port, PIO and PSG (for these devices A0..A7 are don't care, so it's perfectly possible that some programs access them with FEh or FFh in lower address bits).
- Bugfix - Add some circuit that ensures A10=LOW (eg. ORing it with /IORQ should do it).
- Clock - There seem to be two versions of the device: One using the 4MHz signal from the CPC's expansion port. The other using an external unknown frequency (?) oscillator. The internal 3.84MHz oscillator (in the MEA8000 chip) isn't used by either version.
For details on the speech chip, see :
Now, thanks to Jose Leandro, the hardware specialist of the spectrum, with his famous page :
http://trastero.speccy.org/cosas/JL/JL.htm
We can know more about this hardware.
Supported Games
- 7 logiciels vocaux éducatifs & utilitaires (TMPI) (Box Cover)
Pictures (version without Oscillator)
- TMPI speech synthetizer (version without oscillator)
Front
Rear
Disassembling
Component Side
Solder Side
Schematic
- TMPI speech synthetizer (version without oscillator) 300dpi scans
PCB Top
PCB Bottom
TMPI-Speech-Synthesizer-PCB
TMPI-Speech-Synthesizer-Layout
- TMPI Speech Synthetizer Box
Top Box
Side Box
Bottom Box
- The EMR MIDI Interface Layout, thanks to Jose Leandro
Box 1
Box 2
Interface Top
Interface Bottom
Components
Tracks
Layout
PCB
- TMPI Speech Synthetizer Software
Software Disc Side A
Software Disc Side B
Software Tape Side A
Software Tape Side B
Pictures (version with Oscillator)
- TMPI speech synthetizer (version with oscillator)
Device Front/Back
Component Side, Solder Side
Part Number on Oscillator
Schematic
This version uses an external unknown frequency oscillator. According to the schematic, speech is not injected to the SOUND pin on expansion port. /RD and /IORQ are decoded differently as in the other version. /WR is not used (instead the chips /W pin is wired to GND).
Manual
Other Speech Synthesizers
- Amstrad SSA-1 Speech Synthesizer (Amstrad)
- Dk'tronics Speech Synthesizer (Dk'tronics)
- MHT Speech Synthesizer (MHT Ingenieros)
Downloads
- TechniMusique Speech Disk (disk) speech driver with examples
- TechniMusique Speech Synthesizer software disk (2 sides)
- TechniMusique Speech Synthesizer software tape (2 sides)
- TechniMusique 7 logiciels vocaux éducatifs & utilitaires
- TMPI Speech Synthesizer (Eagle).zip (TMPI Speech Synthesizer files for Eagle)
Weblinks
- TMPI Speech Synthesizer from CPC-Power
- TMPI Speech Synthesizer from CPCrulez
- TMPI Speech Synthesizer from hardware.speccy.org
- http://vesta.homelinux.free.fr/site/wiki/cpc6128_amstrad.html - TMPI Speech Details (French)
- http://vesta.homelinux.free.fr/site/wiki/le_synthetiseur_vocal_mea_8000.html - MEA8000 Chip Details (French)
