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| author | 2013-10-09 17:02:42 +0000 | |
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| committer | 2013-10-09 17:02:42 +0000 | |
| commit | 90169c1353cdf0ff7535bf0f549d20e7affc32ad (patch) | |
| tree | fe36bb69225d2d8d421842a61e2486726d1f9fa9 /src/mess/drivers/dectalk.c | |
| parent | 13786cb027da84734cb0a1750d24a77547d1cf43 (diff) | |
added more information about the team behind the dectalk project. n/w
Diffstat (limited to 'src/mess/drivers/dectalk.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/mess/drivers/dectalk.c | 25 |
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/src/mess/drivers/dectalk.c b/src/mess/drivers/dectalk.c index 9e840c44b84..de952b0f9d3 100644 --- a/src/mess/drivers/dectalk.c +++ b/src/mess/drivers/dectalk.c @@ -11,13 +11,30 @@ * Special thanks to leeeeee for helping figure out what the led selftest codes actually mean * * This driver dedicated in memory of Dennis Klatt and Jonathan Allen, without whose -* original work MITalk and hence KlattTalk and DECtalk would never have existed, and -* in memory of Martin Minow, who wrote much of the DECtalk DTC-01 code. +* original work MITalk and hence KlattTalk and DECtalk would never have existed, +* in memory of Martin Minow, who wrote much of the DECtalk DTC-01 code, and +* in memory of Tony Vitale, who was one of the architects of the DECtalk project. +* +* Staff behind DECtalk itself: (mostly from http://amhistory.si.edu/archives/speechsynthesis/ss_dec.htm ): +* John C. Broihier +* Edward A. Bruckert (who followed the DECtalk IP from DEC->Compaq->HP->Force Computers->Fonix inc and still works on DECtalk as of 2012) +* Dave Conroy (dtc-03 letter to sound rules; logic design, worked on dtc-01 and dtc-03, see correspondence below) +* Michael J. Crowley +* Dennis H. Klatt [1938 - Dec 30, 1988] (worked on klsyn and other parts of MITalk, wrote KLATTtalk which was exclusively licensed to DEC in 1982, worked on dtc-01 and dtc-03) +* Martin A. Minow [Nov 6, 1940 - Dec 21, 2000] (dtc-01 conversion of hunnicutt's letter to sound rules, phonetics and general programming) +* Walter Tetschner (DECtalk project director; as of 2013 publishes ASRnews: http://www.asrnews.com/) +* Anthony J. Vitale [Apr 30, 1945 - Aug 5, 2002] (DECtalk project architect; dtc-03 letter to sound rules; worked on dtc-01 and dtc-03) +* +* Staff behind MITalk: (also see http://amhistory.si.edu/archives/speechsynthesis/ss_mit.htm ) +* Dennis H. Klatt (see above) +* Jonathan Allen [Jun 4, 1934 - Apr 24, 2000] (speech synthesis theory and development) +* M. Sharon 'Sheri' Hunnicutt (worked on letter to phoneme rules, which were licensed non-exclusively to DEC in 1982; still works as a docent at KTH in Sweden as of 2013) * * TODO: * * DUART: * * Get the duart self test to pass again; this used to work with the old non-devcb duart implementation but regressed with the newer one * * The duart self tests are EXTENSIVE and make an excellent check of many of the duart internal bits. +* to enable them rather than bypassing the self tests, disable the IP5-short-to-gnd * * <DONE> DUART needs to be reset on reset line activation. as is it works ok, but it should be done anyway. * * DUART needs its i/o pins connected as well: * * pins IP0, IP2, and IP3 are connected to the primary serial port: @@ -136,7 +153,7 @@ TLC is INT level 4 SPC is INT level 5 DUART is INT level 6 */ -/* dtc-03 post by dave conroy from usenet comp.sys.dec on 12/2011: +/* dtc-03 post by dave conroy from usenet comp.sys.dec on 12/29/2011: > Wow. were they better than the DTC01? (OK, I guess they had to be.) I worked on both of these at DEC (in fact, I think if you look in the @@ -959,7 +976,7 @@ ROM_START( dectalk ) // DECtalk DTC-01 'klsyn' tms32010 firmware 'earlier 2.0', both proms are 82s191 equivalent; this firmware DOES WORK. ROM_LOAD16_BYTE("23-205f4.e70", 0x000, 0x800, CRC(ed76a3ad) SHA1(3136bae243ef48721e21c66fde70dab5fc3c21d0)) // Label: "LM8506205F4 // M1-76161-5" @ E70 ROM_LOAD16_BYTE("23-204f4.e69", 0x001, 0x800, CRC(79bb54ff) SHA1(9409f90f7a397b041e4440341f2d7934cb479285)) // Label: "LM8504204F4 // 78S191" @ E69 - // older dsp firmware from dectalk firmware 1.8; this firmware DOES WORK, and even works with 2.0 dectalk firmware! its a bit quiter than the others, though. + // older dsp firmware from dectalk firmware 1.8; this firmware DOES WORK, and even works with 2.0 dectalk firmware! its a bit quieter than the others, though. ROM_LOAD16_BYTE("23-166f4.e70", 0x000, 0x800, CRC(2d036ffc) SHA1(e8c25ca092dde2dc0aec73921af806026bdfbbc3)) // HM1-76161-5 ROM_LOAD16_BYTE("23-165f4.e69", 0x001, 0x800, CRC(a3019ca4) SHA1(249f269c38f7f44edb6d025bcc867c8ca0de3e9c)) // HM1-76161-5 |
