Does anyone think that this would be possible to port to Pokitto?
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Phew!
You had me worried there. Usually, when someone says āSpeech?ā it means I have to stand up and make a fool of myself in a social occasion. 
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how good/bad is it?
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A bit more robotic than the intellivoice, but plenty of documentation for making it sound different.
Intellivoice had 2kb of samples in ROM, not sure we can do that.
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(Itās possible to port a speech synthesizer to a piano.)
Sounds awesome 
I did that with a midi converter about 20 years ago, fun, but terrible.
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Problem is itās abandonware 
The only open speech synth I know is espeak. Itās pretty compact, but still might be too complex for Pokitto (havenāt studied it). How about writing a super tiny original synth for Pokitto, and make it port-friendly for other platforms too?
There are techniques for sampleless speech synthesis right? (I donāt have much knowledge in this field, but from learning about vocoders at school I remember some speech models based on resonators that basically only require storing a few coefficients?)
Pretty sure someone ported this to Arduboy, so Iād say by logic of processor power that the answer is āyesā.
If not, just port this to Pokitto: