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  • Digitised speech using the AY chip?I remember reading somewhere that the AY chip could produce better quality digitised speech than the 48k sampling methods, is there any truth to this…

    I remember reading somewhere that the AY chip could produce better quality digitised speech than the 48k sampling methods, is there any truth to this and is there any software to utilise such a function?
    daveysludge daveysludge October 2014 Development
  • First digitised speech on the Spectrum"Yippee!" shouted the little spider-thing in Splat! There was also "Punchy" which had "That's the way to do it" among others. They were both released…

    "Yippee!" shouted the little spider-thing in Splat! There was also "Punchy" which had "That's the way to do it" among others. They were both released late '83. Were there any that came before that with speech in it?
    Spector Spector August 2002 Games
  • No speech in Cobra's Arc? A mystery tale from Spain...I once downloaded CsA - probably from some Spanish retrogaming website - in TAP format. While I usually discard TAP files in favor of TZX ones as soo…

    ... until now, because it features digitised speech, while [I]all[/I] of ... that you can actually turn speech on and off (and that ... short and low "beep" where speech should instead be heard. This ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu April 2004 Games
  • speccy speechCan anyone tell me what the first spectrum game to feature digitised speech? Was it Ghostbusters? I think it is but i might be wrong!

    Can anyone tell me what the first spectrum game to feature digitised speech? Was it Ghostbusters? I think it is but i might be wrong!
    zx1 zx1 June 2006 Games
  • 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…

    ... a "easter egg" with a speech from Aliens. I have never ...
    Ivanzx Ivanzx November 2013 Games
  • THE best arcade conversion??After thinking about the ZX Club Hypersports and other games such as Flying Shark what do you think is the best arcade conversion. What makes the gra…

    ... of Ay and Beep sound to maximise the voices available for digitised speech ...
    Spectea_um Spectea_um June 2005 Games
  • Skooldaze TooDear WoSsers, Thanks to Skoolkid's disassembly I'm attempting to write a new "improved" version called [B]Skooldaze Too[/B]. As part of the improvem…

    ... consider adding the option for digitised AY speech? Gasman has released a small ... can help you integrate clean, digitised speech in your game. It would ... with AY interfaces is greater than the number of users with speech ...
    zxbruno zxbruno January 2010 Development
  • Has anything ever been discovered since companies officially stopped making games?Ive rarely posted on here but I know there have been a lot of games made since a lot of companies stopped making games for the speccy in the early 90…

    ... away, better digitised sound and video, better beeper and AY music (new ... by Gasman where you have digitised speech mixed with AY music.
    zxbruno zxbruno September 2010 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 time ... files to excellent quality digitised sound via the AY chip, and most ... recently a way to play digitised sound ...
    zxbruno zxbruno February 2012 Games
  • 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 ... disc 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 …

    ... squeeze 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 …

    ... adventures with digitised speech?[/quote]

    Well there was AY digitized speech in ...
    chev chev May 2012 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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…

    ... Before the 128K Spectrum days, digitised speech had to be kept short ... Reducing the quality and keeping speech short was the only way ... the appearance of Spectrums with AY chips things changed for the ... better. The AY chip can be used to play speech (undocumented ...
    zxbruno zxbruno November 2013 Games
  • 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 ... know this. :-D

    Digitised speech and graphics on the Speccy ...
    zxbruno zxbruno March 2014 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Digitised speech using the AY chip?I remember reading somewhere that the AY chip could produce better quality digitised speech than the 48k sampling methods, is there any truth to this…

    ... that the AY chip could produce better quality digitised speech than the ... 4-bit sampled instruments on AY:
    [youtube]2yuTusrb1Xc[/ ...

    Edit: oops "digitized speech." Well they're cracking tunes ... of clarity with speech with the right processing.
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous October 2014 Development
  • improvements to gameshello while i playing a few spectrum games,i thought how better some games would be better with an improvement:- automania-128k tune,less grating t…

    [quote="Graz;237426"]Some AY music or effects in StarWars ... are far too short.
    - Digitised speech like the arcade version
    retrogod retrogod April 2017 Games
  • ZX Spectrum Next Kickstarter Launchedhttps://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1835143999/zx-spectrum-next

    Saw the 3 AY test on YT. Does this ... have things like AY music with good quality digitised speech? Or is that ... that was with one AY chip only. Since digitised speech and samples sound ...
    zxbruno zxbruno May 2017 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • old 128K music and nowaday 128k musicthe old "official" specy 128 games has very good music, I love them. but these music are not uses the capatibilites of the AY chip, why? for exampl…

    ... this can't be the AY!" but after a while ... his attempt to make the AY "talk" while playing ... if you could understand the digitised speech. What mattered was that ... left to do with the AY. I think there is ... , more people would create AY music with digital samples. ...
    zxbruno zxbruno September 2019 Games
  • old 128K music and nowaday 128k musicthe old "official" specy 128 games has very good music, I love them. but these music are not uses the capatibilites of the AY chip, why? for exampl…

    ... this can't be the AY!" but after a while ... his attempt to make the AY "talk" while playing ... if you could understand the digitised speech. What mattered was that ... left to do with the AY. I think there is ... , more people would create AY music with digital samples. ...
    Timmy Timmy September 2019 Games
  • I, Ball 2Anyone else love this game as much as me? I used to play it a lot, despite never usually having much perseverence for platform-type games. It's one …

    ... /> And it had half-decent digitised speech too!
    Gwyn Gwyn January 2006 Games
  • Steve Davis Snooker 128k?I'm in the middle of an, erm, interesting discussion with a bloke on AtariAge. The long and the short of it is he's claiming to have written a 128k …

    ... and Digger Doug (which had digitised speech and music on the 128k ...
    Malc74 Malc74 August 2006 Games
  • 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 …

    ... ? Point-and-click adventures with digitised speech?

    P.S. I ...
    zxbruno zxbruno May 2012 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Best Soccer Game Ever!What?s your favorite spectrum soccer game ever? For me, Emlyn Hughes International Soccer; Match Day;Trak Suite Manager;MultiPlayer Soccer Manager. C…

    ... -Ball? Top down thing, some digitised speech, I think?

    [ This ...
    Smith Smith February 2003 Games
  • games with digitized speechI can only think of one... METEOR STORM by Quicksilva Are there many more?

    ... i slipped a bit of digitised speech into a game we wrote ...
    sickhappyidle sickhappyidle May 2004 Games
  • games with digitized speechI can only think of one... METEOR STORM by Quicksilva Are there many more?

    the digitised speech, btw, was a recording of shaw brother david... who now fronts a band down in London, called The Dirty Pins.
    sickhappyidle sickhappyidle May 2004 Games
  • First digitised speech on the Spectrum"Yippee!" shouted the little spider-thing in Splat! There was also "Punchy" which had "That's the way to do it" among others. They were both released…

    The first digitised speech was Ghostbusters in 1984 i'm pretty sure about that.
    zx1 zx1 July 2005 Games
  • what was the thing that impressed you the most ?on a Spectrum game - you know, those things that you thought to be impossible, yet.. e.g the wide screen mode in Dark Star, Technician Teds loader..…

    ... impressive at the time, also digitised speech in Chase HQ for once ...
    zx1 zx1 October 2005 Games
  • speccy speechCan anyone tell me what the first spectrum game to feature digitised speech? Was it Ghostbusters? I think it is but i might be wrong!

    [url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi?regexp=^Punchy$&pub=^Mr%2e+Micro+Ltd$]Punchy[/url] from 1983 had digitised speech.
    Daren Daren June 2006 Games
  • speccy speechCan anyone tell me what the first spectrum game to feature digitised speech? Was it Ghostbusters? I think it is but i might be wrong!

    [QUOTE=Daren][url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi?regexp=^Punchy$&pub=^Mr%2e+Micro+Ltd$]Punchy[/url] from 1983 had digitised speech.[/QUOTE]


    and didnt it just make you want to kill yourself??!
    Hungry Horace Hungry Horace June 2006 Games
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