To output an allophone, one must send one (or usually more) 32bit packet(s) to the chip. This is making it more complicated to use than the SP0256 (which needs only one 8bit value per allophone). On the other hand, it's making the MEA8000 more flexible: The SP0256 contains predefined allophones (usually the -AL2 english allophone set), whilst the MEA8000 can be freely used with different allophone sets (english, french, other languages) (or even as general purpose sound processor, ie. to produce music or explosions, etc.)
== Hardware CPC Speech Synthesisers ==
* [[Amstrad SSA-1 Speech Synthesizer]] ([[SP0256]] based) * [[Dk'tronics Speech Synthesizer]] ([[SP0256]] based) * [[TMPI speech synthetizer]] ([[MEA8000]] based) == Software Speech synthesisers == With some clever programming it is possible to program a software Speech Synthesizer with good results. * [[Software SpeechSynthesizers]] (Symbos softwareSoftware based)
== Speech Example ==