| Currah μSpeech | Try s$ |
Type a Currah speech string as you would assign to s$ and hear the SP0256-AL2 allophones that ParseSpeechString would queue. This is not English text-to-speech: letters map one-for-one, and names in parentheses pick a specific sound.
Examples from the 1983 manual:
Queued allophones (bit 6 set means high intonation). Click one to hear it alone:
A full stop queues a sentence pause. A space is a word pause, a comma is a phrase pause, and an apostrophe is a short pause. Uppercase raises the pitch. Q and X are not letters in this alphabet; write "kw" and "ks" instead.
The parser follows ParseSpeechString and ParseAllophoneGroup. Samples are recordings of a real AL2 chip, concatenated in the browser; they are close to the unit, not a cycle-accurate SP0256 core.