My space Invaders custom rebuild

[StatFreak]

poppo, That is a FANTASTIC job you are doing.
   for sharing with us.
Ford

   I agree. It is coming along nicely. 

[poppo]

For anyone who happens to be following this and watched the last video, you could hear that I added voice to the events too. But I had used an old voice synthesizer module and wanted something that sounded better. In the 'rants' section I complained about not being able to find stuff like that any more. I still have not. But I found the next best thing. There are plenty of these on ebay, but I bought a few from this seller. He has a really good video that shows how to program the unit, Basically it is a 104 second voice recorder, sort of like you find in a greeting card. A single button will have it speak whatever was recorded to it. You can load any wav file into it. So you can record your own things or find free wave files on the Internet. The push button is easily controlled by a microprocessor. In my project a simple 'Pulsout' command will trigger it. In any case, these can come in handy for adding some voice to just about anything.

http://cgi.ebay.com/250803983855

There are some free sites that will do text to voice on-line and let you download the results.

http://www.cepstral.com/demos/
http://www2.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php