NSAM265SR Datasheet, PDF (10/58 Pages) National Semiconductor (TI) – CompactSPEECH Digital Speech Processors

1 0 Theory of Operation (Continued)
1 9 2 Internal Vocabulary
Table 1-3 summarizes the words in the standard internal
English speech synthesis vocabulary
Sentences
Currently two built-in sentences 0 and 1 are supported
Time and Day and You Have The CompactSPEECH pro-
vides specific commands to synthesize these sentences
when an Internal Vocabulary is used When using External
Vocabularies sentences can be defined in a sentence ta-
ble and accessed directly via the SAS command
Use the SS command to play a sentence without an argu-
ment Use the SAS command to play a sentence with an
argument A sentence can have only one argument
Table 1-4 summarizes the sentences in the standard inter-
nal English speech synthesis vocabulary
TABLE 1-3 Internal Vocabulary Word Table
Index
Word
Comment
0 oh
(as in eight oh five pm-8 05 PM)
1 one
2 two
3 three
Numbers four through 18
19 nineteen
20 twenty
(at end of word as in 8 20 PM)
21 thirty
(at end of word)
22 forty
(at end of word)
23 fifty
(at end of word)
24 twenty
(in middle of word as in 8 23 PM)
25 thirty
(in middle of word)
26 forty
(in middle of word)
27 fifty
(in middle of word)
28 AM
29 PM
30 Monday
31 Tuesday
32 Wednesday
33 Thursday
34 Friday
35 Saturday
36 Sunday
37 no
(as in you have no messages)
38 messages
39 message
(as in you have one message)
40 you have
41 end of messages
Sentences
Currently two built-in sentences 0 and 1 are supported
Time and Day and You Have The CompactSPEECH pro-
vides specific commands to synthesize these sentences
when an Internal Vocabulary is used When using External
Vocabularies sentences can be defined in a sentence ta-
ble and accessed directly via the SAS command
Use the SS command to play a sentence without an argu-
ment Use the SAS command to play a sentence with an
argument A sentence can have only one argument
TABLE 1-4 Internal Vocabulary Sentence Table
Index Sentence Argument
Comment
0 Time and time day option Announces one of
Day
two sentences
according to the
argument
If time day
option is 0
synthesize the
actual current time
and day
If time day
option is not 0
synthesize the
current message
time and day
stamp
1 You Have num of msgs Announces the
number of
messages
according to the
argument
The 1-byte num
of msgs may be
any value from 0
through 59
If num of msgs
is 0 the word no is
synthesized
instead of a
number
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