custom sound playback for talking dolls

I would like to construct a one-of-a-kind talking doll and I'm trying
to find a fairly inexpensive playback device that I can load multiple
recorded speech samples onto (and have it play them back randomly).
Any suggestions?

On Jun 12, 8:38?pm, Brandon Moore
wrote:
I would like to construct a one-of-a-kind talking doll and I'm trying
to find a fairly inexpensive playback device that I can load multiple
recorded speech samples onto (and have it play them back randomly).
Any suggestions?

Define: "fairly inexpensive".
How much audio storage. Does it have to be solid-state?
Also, I presume you don't want a string in the back you have to
pull.

-mpm

On Jun 13, 7:40 am, mpm wrote:
On Jun 12, 8:38?pm, Brandon Moore
wrote:

I would like to construct a one-of-a-kind talking doll and I'm trying
to find a fairly inexpensive playback device that I can load multiple
recorded speech samples onto (and have it play them back randomly).
Any suggestions?

Define: "fairly inexpensive".
How much audio storage. Does it have to be solid-state?
Also, I presume you don't want a string in the back you have to
pull.

-mpm

I don't know. I'd like to not spend more than $40 max, preferably
closer to $20. Enough storage for no more than a dozen 3-second
phrases should be enough. Not sure how I would get that without going
solid-state. Actually, the pull string might add to the kitsch factor
of the doll, so maybe I would like a pull string?

On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 00:38:51 +0000, Brandon Moore wrote:

I would like to construct a one-of-a-kind talking doll and I'm trying to
find a fairly inexpensive playback device that I can load multiple
recorded speech samples onto (and have it play them back randomly). Any
suggestions?

You want to reinvent Chatty Cathy?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatty_Cathy

Thanks,
Rich

On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 16:47:32 +0000, Rich Grise wrote:
On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 00:38:51 +0000, Brandon Moore wrote:

I would like to construct a one-of-a-kind talking doll and I'm trying to
find a fairly inexpensive playback device that I can load multiple
recorded speech samples onto (and have it play them back randomly). Any
suggestions?

You want to reinvent Chatty Cathy?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatty_Cathy

Or maybe Talky Tina?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_..._Twilight_Zone)

;-)

Cheers!
Rich

Have you checked out Winbond?

http://www.winbond.com/hq/enu/Produc...rSpeechFamily/
They have several families of speech parts besides this one.

Steve

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On Jun 13, 7:40 am, mpm wrote:
On Jun 12, 8:38?pm, Brandon Moore
wrote:

I would like to construct a one-of-a-kind talking doll and I'm trying
to find a fairly inexpensive playback device that I can load multiple
recorded speech samples onto (and have it play them back randomly).
Any suggestions?

Define: "fairly inexpensive".
How much audio storage. Does it have to be solid-state?
Also, I presume you don't want a string in the back you have to
pull.

-mpm

I don't know. I'd like to not spend more than $40 max, preferably
closer to $20. Enough storage for no more than a dozen 3-second
phrases should be enough. Not sure how I would get that without going
solid-state. Actually, the pull string might add to the kitsch factor
of the doll, so maybe I would like a pull string?