Ask HN: Tips for getting the ROM for an old speech synthesizer?

3 pointsposted a month ago
by ctoth

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2 Comments

pestatije

a month ago

excuse my ignorance... wouldn't it be enough to just plug the chip and read its contents?

JohnFen

a month ago

This is a speech synthesizer chip. The contents of the ROM are not exposed directly for reading like that. You could play all the phonemes one by one and capture them with an ADC, though.