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  • Howto play the AY files in the Spectrum +3 ?I have read that is possible to play the AY files in the real spectrum 128 hardware. Can someone to explain how to do it ? thx in advance

    ... to cull bits of speech and other AY effects from games and ... of there, along with the AY data from the .TAP...
    kgmcneil kgmcneil September 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • which zx-spectrum games uses 1bit sound samples?hi! I'm looking for zx-spectrum games using 1bit sound samples. Compairing with msx, which has far less games available than zx-spectrum, there are f…

    [QUOTE=FrankT;575621]Surprised no one mentioned Robocop yet. The prime directives speech is clearer than the breadbin version.[/QUOTE]
    Those are 4-bit samples played back through the AY, you don't get them in 48K mode.
    AndyC AndyC November 2011 Games
  • Famous Arcade coin ops wich did not get Spectrum conversionsI was thinking about this the other day, and realized that the spectrum users we were very lucky on this, since we got most of the most important and…

    ... an official conversion with AY Music and sampled speech would have been ...
    Retrobrothers Retrobrothers December 2011 Games
  • Famous Arcade coin ops wich did not get Spectrum conversionsI was thinking about this the other day, and realized that the spectrum users we were very lucky on this, since we got most of the most important and…

    ... an official conversion with AY Music and sampled speech would have been ...
    Bluce_Ree Bluce_Ree December 2011 Games
  • ZX81, AY, samples, SpecAY, AY files, etc.With the appearance of 3 different AY interfaces for the ZX81 in the past 6 months, I wonder... Is it possible to make the ZX81 "speak" or play digi…

    ... other software which uses AY samples also has this ... only differences between the AY used on Spectrums and ... uk/ZX80_ZX81/forums/speech-on-the-xpand-ay-unit-t703s10. ... have managed 12 bit speech and found the zeddie ... to mention that the speech "player" is the ...
    moggy moggy December 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • I say!Don't think this has been done before , but do we have a list of games that had speech in them? Which are the best and which the worst? I'll kick of…

    ... that used the AY chip to play sampled speech. And it ... beeper had to avoid sampled speech because of the amount ... they didn't use the AY a lot more for ... with it, and even AY music plus voice at the ... WAV2AY to include high-quality speech and digitised sound in ...
    zxbruno zxbruno January 2012 Games
  • I say!Don't think this has been done before , but do we have a list of games that had speech in them? Which are the best and which the worst? I'll kick of…

    ... that used the AY chip to play sampled speech. And it sounded ... , with Clare Edgeley's sampled speech.
    Daren Daren January 2012 Games
  • It's almost lifelike!!!We were easily impressed back in the Speccy days. And I'm sure we will look back on modern games today wondering why we thought it was "almost" real…

    ... made a demo with AY music and digitised speech at the same ... quality digitised sound via the AY chip, and most recently a ...
    zxbruno zxbruno February 2012 Games
  • AY-interface for ZX81 (at last ;) )Hi, it exists finally ;) - compatible with the most standard one - ZonX. [url]http://www.sellmyretro.com/offer/details/Brand_New_Sinclair_ZX81_MrX_A…

    ... AY interface, using BASIC

    There is even a speech ... .co.uk/ZX80_ZX81/forums/speech-synthesis-spanish-phonemes-t736. ... [/url] ), and another rudimentary speech player - [url]http://www. ... .uk/ZX80_ZX81/forums/speech-on-the-xpand-ay-unit-t703s10.html ...
    rwap rwap February 2012 Hardware
  • AY-interface for ZX81 (at last ;) )Hi, it exists finally ;) - compatible with the most standard one - ZonX. [url]http://www.sellmyretro.com/offer/details/Brand_New_Sinclair_ZX81_MrX_A…

    ... feature used to make the AY play samples on the Spectrum ... by samples You mean say speech for example, the zeddy complete ... and any AY unit that uses ZONX ports handles speech ok.
    moggy moggy February 2012 Hardware
  • Games with Plus3/Disk enhancementsFor about 95% of games of +3 disk, it was simply the tape version with the only benefit being reduced loading times. However, there were a few excep…

    ... =0005581[/url] ). Disk version has AY music, while cassette version hasn ... version was to have digitised speech, but at two in the ...
    Ralf Ralf February 2012 Games
  • New Game! Uwol '81 [ZX81][img]http://www.mojontwins.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/s1.png[/img] Yup, we have ported our most-ported game to date to the good ol' ZX81! Using …

    Well, if Spectrum game coders were able to squeeze in digitised speech (which is much worse), maybe some AY tunes can be included in future ZX81 16K games. :)

    Music isn't a must, but sound effects can make a game a lot more enjoyable.
    zxbruno zxbruno March 2012 Brand new software
  • New Game! Uwol '81 [ZX81][img]http://www.mojontwins.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/s1.png[/img] Yup, we have ported our most-ported game to date to the good ol' ZX81! Using …

    ... in digitised speech (which is much worse), maybe some AY tunes can ... , for ZXpand (ZX81 with 32K, AY, flashloading and joystick :) ).
    Just ...
    Yerzmyey Yerzmyey March 2012 Brand new software
  • What if there was no memory or space limitation?What if there was no memory or space limitation? We've had topics about the limitations of the Speccy's hardware, topics where we discussed how good …

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    Well there was AY digitized speech in Starglider, and before that ...
    chev chev May 2012 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • BEEP / PLAY equivalentI'm so tired I can't even think of a proper title for this. Has anyone seen a table showing a comparison between BEEP notes durations and equivalent …

    ... anything involving sampled sound or speech needs the speed of pure ... waveform (PC) quantisation to ZX AY Waveforms (first version used Fast ... .
    I did not test speech, but it is surely possible ...
    LCD LCD September 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • Question about wav2ayThis batch file from wav2ay looks like this: [CODE]echo Converting from WAV to RAW... sox input.wav -r 11025 -b -u -c1 Output.raw echo Converting f…

    ... way, Gasman has produced AY music with sampled speech, all at the ...
    zxbruno zxbruno October 2012 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • WIP: ULAPlus hardware implementationThis aims to be an "almost" plug-in replacement for the Sinclair ULA chip fitted in Spectrum 16K/48K/Plus machines. It comes in a form of a small PC…

    ... when I write a large speech as this is :)

    AY chip, I need to bring ... request to the in-ULA AY chip would been done.
    AY music without losing the attribute ...
    mcleod_ideafix mcleod_ideafix March 2013 Hardware
  • Introduce yourself[SIZE=3][FONT=Comic Sans MS]This is the thread to stop by & introduce yourself.[/FONT][/SIZE]

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    digital ay
    drum
    no sound
    speech sample
    TonyCiampi TonyCiampi September 2013 Chit chat
  • Formant synthesis on the AY-3-8910I was idly pondering ways of getting interesting sounds out of the AY chip, and it occurred to me the envelope system might be useful for formant syn…

    ... might be possible, with the AY registers changing on a frame ... to play music on the AY at the same time - this ... demos to run interrupt driven speech routines in the same way ...
    GoingDigital GoingDigital September 2013 Development
  • Formant synthesis on the AY-3-8910I was idly pondering ways of getting interesting sounds out of the AY chip, and it occurred to me the envelope system might be useful for formant syn…

    ... of the frequency components of speech, you will see a bumpy ... ] Hz. Handy! To get recognisable speech, you need at least 3 ... pretty close to what the AY chip can do. The envelope ... can be quite forgiving where speech is concerned.

    If ...
    GoingDigital GoingDigital September 2013 Development
  • Formant synthesis on the AY-3-8910I was idly pondering ways of getting interesting sounds out of the AY chip, and it occurred to me the envelope system might be useful for formant syn…

    ... [/url] by Serzhsoft has some AY-based speech synthesis in it, which ... to play music on the AY at the same time - this ... ]an established standard for dual AY chips on the Speccy[/url ...
    gasman gasman September 2013 Development
  • Formant synthesis on the AY-3-8910I was idly pondering ways of getting interesting sounds out of the AY chip, and it occurred to me the envelope system might be useful for formant syn…

    ... . It does not use sampled speech - just phoneme parameters.
    < ... to extract formants from a speech recording, [URL="http://www ... url] by Serzhsoft has some AY-based speech synthesis in it, which ... Oh, and as for simultaneous speech/music, there's always [URL ...
    GoingDigital GoingDigital September 2013 Development
  • Formant synthesis on the AY-3-8910I was idly pondering ways of getting interesting sounds out of the AY chip, and it occurred to me the envelope system might be useful for formant syn…

    ... needs to be considered - for speech, the envelope needs to run ... of the craft of doing AY chiptunes, and usually there's ...
    gasman gasman September 2013 Development
  • SWIV digitised speech as easter egg?I read in the permission from one of the authors of the game that the game had a "easter egg" with a speech from Aliens. I have never tried it myself…

    ... the 128K Spectrum days, digitised speech had to be kept short ... store about 6 seconds of speech with the best possible quality ... . Reducing the quality and keeping speech short was the only way ... better. The AY chip can be used to play speech (undocumented feature ...
    zxbruno zxbruno November 2013 Games
  • Something you seen the spectrum do that impressed you?It can be coding related, graphics etc.... From me... Turbo loaders, graphic masking, the last of the lerm tape copier coding that could do speedloc…

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    - Sound effects like digitized speech or those wonderful sounds from ... time...

    - AY music - I mean DECENT AY music... Bionic Commandos ... for me include:

    - AY Music by CPU or Fatal ...
    kgmcneil kgmcneil December 2013 Games
  • Help with 1-bit sampled soundHi all, I've been sent over this way from the CPC Wiki forums as you guys may be able to help me more specifically with a programming query. Firstly…

    ... you were to download the *.ay file from that page, you ... also contain several 1-bit speech samples, to give you an ...
    introspec introspec March 2014 Development
  • SAMPLE-TRACKER vast INSTRUCTION with screensHi, I wrote it mainly for CrashNicker and other 1-bit / Beeper users, but I suppose it could be also useful for every lo-fi musician (YM/AY chip, Co…

    ... of these tracks have sampled speech?" but then I realized "Na ... beeper as easily as the AY chip. I'm surprised you ... this. :-D

    Digitised speech and graphics on the Speccy ...
    zxbruno zxbruno March 2014 Sinclair Miscellaneous
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