Claims
- 1. A speech synthesizing circuit, comprising:
- a speech synthesizing integrated circuit chip having a microprocessor, a speech synthesizer, a programmable memory, an input/output port, and a speech address register for storing an address containing speech data, the speech synthesizing integrated circuit chip including an instruction, pre-programmed into the speech synthesizing integrated circuit chip during manufacture thereof, that, when executed, can cause an address to be loaded into the speech address register; and
- an external memory integrated circuit chip, the input/output port of the speech synthesizing integrated circuit chip being connected to the external memory integrated circuit chip;
- the programmable memory of the speech synthesizing integrated circuit chip being programmed to cause the microprocessor to retrieve speech data from the external memory integrated circuit chip for speech synthesis by the speech synthesizer, the programmable memory being programmed by providing a software simulation of the instruction that can cause an address to be loaded into the speech address register, the software simulation causing the address to be loaded into the external memory integrated circuit chip without reliance on execution of the instruction pre-programmed into the speech synthesizing integrated circuit chip to load the address;
- wherein the external memory integrated circuit chip comprises an audio synthesizing integrated circuit chip selected from the family of SP chips.
- 2. The speech synthesizing circuit of claim 1 wherein the speech synthesizing integrated circuit chip comprises hardware for connecting to and obtaining data from an external memory.
- 3. The speech synthesizing circuit of claim 1 wherein the external memory integrated circuit chip comprises an audio synthesizing integrated circuit chip having a microprocessor, an audio synthesizer, an input/output port, and an audio data storage memory.
- 4. The speech synthesizing circuit of claim 3 wherein the audio synthesizing integrated circuit chip comprises a programmable memory programmed to cause the microprocessor of the audio synthesizing integrated circuit chip to retrieve audio data from the audio data storage memory of the audio synthesizing integrated circuit chip for audio synthesis by the audio synthesizer of the audio synthesizing integrated circuit chip.
- 5. The speech synthesizing circuit of claim 4 wherein the programmable memory of the audio synthesizing integrated circuit chip comprises the audio data storage memory of the audio synthesizing integrated circuit chip.
- 6. The speech synthesizing circuit of claim 3 wherein the speech synthesizer of the speech synthesizing integrated circuit chip processes speech data at a higher efficiency than the audio synthesizer of the audio synthesizing integrated circuit chip processes.
- 7. The speech synthesizing circuit of claim 6 wherein the speech synthesizer of the speech synthesizing integrated circuit chip comprises a linear predictive coding synthesizer.
- 8. The speech synthesizing circuit of claim 7 wherein the speech synthesizing integrated circuit chip is selected from the family of TSP50C4X, TSP50C1X, and TSP50C3X chips.
- 9. The speech synthesizing circuit of claim 8 wherein the speech synthesizing integrated circuit chip comprises a TSP50C3X chip.
- 10. The speech synthesizing circuit of claim 6 wherein the audio synthesizer of the audio synthesizing integrated circuit chip comprises an adaptive pulse code modulation synthesizer.
- 11. The speech synthesizing circuit of claim 10 wherein the audio synthesizing integrated circuit chip is selected from the family of SPC chips.
- 12. The speech synthesizing circuit of claim 3 wherein:
- the speech synthesizing integrated circuit chip comprises a balanced speaker driver having two outputs for connection of a first speaker impedance between the two outputs;
- the audio synthesizing integrated circuit chip comprises a single-ended speaker driver having a single output for connection to a second speaker impedance; and
- a speaker is connected between the two outputs of the balanced speaker driver of the speech synthesizing integrated circuit chip and is also connected to the single-ended speaker driver of the audio synthesizing integrated circuit chip.
- 13. The speech synthesizing circuit of claim 1 wherein the programmable memory of the speech synthesizing integrated circuit chip is programmed with speech data for speech synthesis by the speech synthesizer.
- 14. A method of combining a speech synthesizing integrated circuit chip with an external memory integrated circuit chip, comprising the steps of:
- providing a speech synthesizing integrated circuit chip having a microprocessor, a speech synthesizer, a programmable memory, an input/output port, and a speech address register for storing an address containing speech data, the speech synthesizing integrated circuit chip including an instruction, pre-programmed into the speech synthesizing integrated circuit chip during manufacture thereof, that, when executed, can cause an address to be loaded into the speech address register;
- providing the external memory integrated circuit chip;
- connecting the input/output port of the speech synthesizing integrated circuit chip with the external memory integrated circuit chip;
- programming the programmable memory of the speech synthesizing integrated circuit chip to cause the microprocessor to retrieve speech data from the external memory integrated circuit chip for speech synthesis by the speech synthesizer, the programmable memory being programmed by providing a software simulation of the instruction that can cause an address to be loaded into the speech address register, the software simulation causing the address to be loaded into the external memory integrated circuit chip without reliance on execution of the instruction pre-programmed into the speech synthesizing integrated circuit chip to load the address;
- wherein the external memory integrated circuit chip comprises an audio synthesizing integrated circuit chip selected from the family of SP chips.
- 15. A speech synthesizing circuit, comprising:
- a speech synthesizing integrated circuit chip having a microprocessor, a speech synthesizer, and a programmable memory, an input/output port, the speech synthesizing integrated circuit chip including one or more instructions, pre-programmed into the speech synthesizing integrated circuit chip during manufacture thereof, that, when executed, can obtain speech data located at an address stored in a speech address register that stores an address at which speech data is located; and
- an external memory integrated circuit chip, the input/output port of the speech synthesizing integrated circuit chip being connected to the external memory integrated circuit chip;
- at least one of the integrated circuit chips being programmed to cause speech data to be delivered from the external memory integrated circuit chip to the speech synthesizing integrated circuit chip for speech synthesis by the speech synthesizer, by providing a software simulation of execution of the one or more instructions that can obtain speech data located at an address stored in the speech address register, the software simulation causing speech data to be obtained by the speech synthesizing integrated circuit chip from the external memory integrated circuit chip at an address stored in the external memory integrated circuit chip without reliance on execution of the one or more instructions pre-programmed into the speech synthesizing integrated circuit chip to obtain speech data;
- wherein the external memory integrated circuit chip comprises an audio synthesizing integrated circuit chip selected from the family of SP chips.
- 16. The speech synthesizing circuit of claim 15, wherein the programmable memory of the speech synthesizing integrated circuit chip is programmed to cause speech data to be delivered from the external memory integrated circuit chip to the speech synthesizing integrated circuit chip for speech synthesis by the speech synthesizer, by providing the software simulation of the one or more instructions that obtain speech data located at an address stored in the speech address register.
- 17. The speech synthesizing circuit of claim 15 wherein the speech synthesizing integrated circuit chip comprises hardware for connecting to and obtaining data from an external memory.
- 18. The speech synthesizing circuit of claim 15 wherein the external memory integrated circuit chip comprises an audio synthesizing integrated circuit chip having a microprocessor, an audio synthesizer, an input/output port, and an audio data storage memory.
- 19. The speech synthesizing circuit of claim 18 wherein the audio synthesizing integrated circuit chip comprises a programmable memory programmed to cause the microprocessor of the audio synthesizing integrated circuit chip to retrieve audio data from the audio data storage memory of the audio synthesizing integrated circuit chip for audio synthesis by the audio synthesizer of the audio synthesizing integrated circuit chip.
- 20. The speech synthesizing circuit of claim 19 wherein the programmable memory of the audio synthesizing integrated circuit chip comprises the audio data storage memory of the audio synthesizing integrated circuit chip.
- 21. The speech synthesizing circuit of claim 18 wherein the speech synthesizer of the speech synthesizing integrated circuit chip processes speech data at a higher efficiency than the audio synthesizer of the audio synthesizing integrated circuit chip processes.
- 22. The speech synthesizing circuit of claim 21 wherein the speech synthesizer of the speech synthesizing integrated circuit chip comprises a linear predictive coding synthesizer.
- 23. The speech synthesizing circuit of claim 22 wherein the speech synthesizing integrated circuit chip is selected from the family of TSP50C4X, TSP50C1X, and TSP50C3X chips.
- 24. The speech synthesizing circuit of claim 23 wherein the speech synthesizing integrated circuit chip comprises a TSP50C3X chip.
- 25. The speech synthesizing circuit of claim 21 wherein the audio synthesizer of the audio synthesizing integrated circuit chip comprises an adaptive pulse code modulation synthesizer.
- 26. The speech synthesizing circuit of claim 21 wherein the audio synthesizing integrated circuit chip is selected from the family of SPC chips.
- 27. The speech synthesizing circuit of claim 18 wherein:
- the speech synthesizing integrated circuit chip comprises a balanced speaker driver having two outputs for connection of a first speaker impedance between the two outputs;
- the audio synthesizing integrated circuit chip comprises a single-ended speaker driver having a single output for connection to a second speaker impedance; and
- a speaker is connected between the two outputs of the balanced speaker driver of the speech synthesizing integrated circuit chip and is also connected to the single-ended speaker driver of the audio synthesizing integrated circuit chip.
- 28. The speech synthesizing circuit of claim 15 wherein the programmable memory of the speech synthesizing integrated circuit chip is programmed with speech data for speech synthesis by the speech synthesizer.
- 29. A method of combining a speech synthesizing integrated circuit chip with an external memory integrated circuit chip, comprising the steps of:
- providing a speech synthesizing integrated circuit chip having a microprocessor, a speech synthesizer, and a programmable memory, an input/output port, the speech synthesizing integrated circuit chip including one or more instructions, pre-programmed into the speech synthesizing integrated circuit chip during manufacture thereof, that, when executed, can obtain speech data located at an address stored in a speech address register that stores an address at which speech data is located;
- providing the external memory integrated circuit chip;
- connecting the input/output port of the speech synthesizing integrated circuit chip with the external memory integrated circuit chip;
- programming at least one of the integrated circuit chips to cause speech data to be delivered from the external memory integrated circuit chip to the speech synthesizing integrated circuit chip for speech synthesis by the speech synthesizer, by providing a software simulation of execution of the one or more instructions that can obtain speech data located at an address stored in the speech address register, the software simulation causing speech data to be obtained by the speech synthesizing integrated circuit chip from the external memory integrated circuit chip at an address stored in the external memory integrated circuit chip without reliance on execution of the one or more instructions pre-programmed into the speech synthesizing integrated circuit chip to obtain speech data;
- wherein the external memory integrated circuit chip comprises an audio synthesizing integrated circuit chip selected from the family of SP chips.
- 30. A speech synthesizing circuit, comprising:
- a speech synthesizing integrated circuit chip having a microprocessor, a speech synthesizer, and an input/output port for interfacing with an external memory; and
- a sound synthesizing integrated circuit chip having a microprocessor, a sound synthesizer having a data rate substantially greater than that of the speech synthesizer of the speech synthesizing integrated circuit chip, an input/output port, and a sound data storage memory;
- the input/output port of the speech synthesizing integrated circuit chip being interfaced with the input/output port of the sound synthesizing integrated circuit chip;
- at least one of the integrated circuit chips being programmed to cause the microprocessor of the speech synthesizing integrated circuit chip to retrieve speech data from the sound data storage memory of the sound synthesizing integrated circuit chip for speech synthesis by the speech synthesizer of the speech synthesizing integrated circuit chip;
- wherein the sound synthesizing integrated circuit chip is selected from the family of SP chips.
- 31. The speech synthesizing circuit of claim 30 wherein the sound synthesizing integrated circuit chip is programmed to cause the microprocessor of the sound synthesizing integrated circuit chip to retrieve sound data from the sound data storage memory of the sound synthesizing integrated circuit chip for sound synthesis by an adaptive pulse code modulation synthesizer of the sound synthesizing integrated circuit chip.
- 32. The speech synthesizing circuit of claim 30 wherein the speech synthesizing integrated circuit chip is selected from the family of TSP50C4X, TSP50C1X, and TSP50C3X chips.
- 33. The speech synthesizing circuit of claim 32 wherein the speech synthesizing integrated circuit chip comprises a TSP50C3X chip.
- 34. A method of combining a speech synthesizing integrated circuit chip and a sound synthesizing integrated circuit chip, comprising the steps of:
- providing a speech synthesizing integrated circuit chip having a microprocessor, a speech synthesizer, and an input/output port for interfacing with an external memory;
- providing a sound synthesizing integrated circuit chip having a microprocessor, a sound synthesizer having a data rate substantially greater than that of the speech synthesizer of the speech synthesizing integrated circuit chip, an input/output port, and a sound data storage memory;
- interfacing the input/output port of the speech synthesizing integrated circuit chip with the input/output port of the sound synthesizing integrated circuit chip; and
- programming at least one of the integrated circuit chips to cause the microprocessor of the speech synthesizing integrated circuit chip to retrieve speech data from the sound data storage memory of the sound synthesizing integrated circuit chip for speech synthesis by the speech synthesizer of the speech synthesizing integrated circuit chip;
- wherein the sound synthesizing integrated circuit chip is selected from the family of SP chips.
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION
This is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08/790,541, filed on Jan. 30, 1997, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,850,628.
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