Скачать или смотреть LambdaSpeak meets BASIC Eliza on the CPC 464

Couldn't resist - used my DIY hardware speech synthesizer "LambdaSpeak" to give a voice to good old Eliza! Eliza makes a great demo for speech synthesis.

Greetings to Jeff Shrager - I had typed in a version of his Eliza BASIC program (from a "Creative Computing" book) into my CPC 464 in 1984. I found this book in my local library in Hamburg / Germany - unfortunately, also Eliza got translated into German, and the produced output didn't make much sense, due to the more complicated grammar of German.

Back then, I already owned the DK'Tronics speech synthesizer for the CPC 464, and I did the same thing as here, I added speech synthesis to Eliza - however, the speech quality of the DK'Tronics synth was much worse. The utilized SP0256-AL2 chip wasn't really good at speaking German at all :-)

Happy I found this "native" English version of Eliza on the web, on some CPC website. It was easy to modify for LambdaSpeak. LambdaSpeak (if used in "native mode" like here) doesn't require a complicated RSX driver or similar. One can just output the ASCII bytes to port &FBEE.

Enjoy!