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Speech Products
P.O. Box 660199, M/S 8718
Dallas, TX 75266-0199
972-480-7149 - Speech Applications Assistance Line
972-480-4546 - Texas Instruments Product Information Center

Third Party Support

Note: The following non-TI companies are known to perform speech development service. Their appearance here is not an endorsement by TI.

Accent Engineering
5738 82nd Street, Suite A
Lubbock, TX 79413
Contact: Jeff McNeill
Voice Phone: 806-798-9600
Fax: 806-798-9601
Email: info@accentengr.com
Webpage: http://www.accentengr.com

Complete product development services including speech, software, electrical hardware design, mechanical design, and prototyping. Extensive experience in educational toys, medical products, voice-mail systems, and other embedded software systems.

Tammy Pearson leads the speech development services that include script preparation, recording, and editing. Tammy has multi-language experience including English, French, German, Italian, Spanish (Latin American and Castilian), and Danish.

Engineering design services include software development, hardware design, and mechanical design. Over 30 years of design and manufacturing experience in high-volume consumer electronics and high-end systems. Prototyping services with custom PCB designs and PC-based virtual prototypes.

Design Experience with: MSP50C30, MSP50C3x, TSP50C0x, TSP50C1x, TSP50P11, MSP50P34, TMS50C20, TSP53C30, TSP50C4x

Tools available: WinSDS, EVM50C1x, EMU50C3x, EMU50C30, OTP Programmers

Lorrie Carter
3146 Oak Hill Road
Carrollton, TX 75007
Contact: Lorrie Carter
Voice Phone: 972-492-3724
email: lcarter@post.smu.edu

Multilingual speech editing. All phases of speech production from scripting, recording, and editing with the SDS5000 to downloading data onto disk. Extensive experience in the field of voice production.

Design experience with: TSP50C1x

Tools available: SDS5000

Cimarusti and Associates
4426 Newton Street
Torrance, CA 90505
Contact: Deidre Cimarusti, PhD
Voice Phone: 310-375-0909
email: waves@tiki.net

All phases of speech product development from inception to preproduction. Complete vocabulary processing services for English and foreign languages. Complete software and hardware engineering services.

Design experience with: TMS50C20, TSP50C1x, TSP50C4x, TSP53C30a

Tools Available: SDS5000, WinSDS

Circuitrol Designers
3376 73rd St. E
P.O. Box 2066
Inver Grove Hts., MN 55076
Contact: John Talbot
Voice Phone: 612-451-9788
FAX: 612-451-9788
email: Circuitrol@compuserve.com

Design experience with: C1x family development and software coding for three LPC products. Helped to develop Mandarin Chinese script and software coding for LPC product. Currently developing a program for 3x chip with LPC and CELP speech on the same chip and writing software code for 3x chip.

Tools available: WINSDS, EVM50C1x, EMU50C3x

Consulting Services
66 Old State Street
South Deerfield, MA 01373
Contact: Robert W. Jeffway, Jr.
Voice Phone: 413-665-2124
FAX: 413-665-2339
email: bjeffway@javanet.com

Custom speech and data development. Hardware and software design and prototype.

Design experience with: TSP50C1x, MSP50C3x, TSP50C4x, TSP60C18/80/81, TMS50C20, TSP53C30A

Tools available: WinSDS, EMU50C3x, EVM50C1x, SEB60C20, MSD50C1x, EVM50C12, SDS5000, FAB50C1x

Cathy A. DeRaleau
1071 Bullis Road
Elma, NY 14059
Contact: Cathy DeRaleau
Voice Phone: 716-655-5019
email: tomderal@localnet.com

Recording of speech and sound effects. Script preparation and development of all speech and sound effects. Preparation of speech and sound effects for programmers' use. Preparation of programming script to define concatentation sequences for programmer.

Languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish (Castilian and Latin American Spanish), Danish. Other languages possible.

Design experience with: TSP50C1x, MSP50C3x

Tools available: WinSDS

Ralph Dyke
1338 Arbutus Street, #4
Vancouver, BC, Canada V6J3W8

Contact: Ralph Dyke
Voice Phone: 604-734-7471

Software and hardware design. Extensive music background.

Design experience with: TSP50C1x, MSP50C3x

Tools available: EVM50C1x, EMU50C1x, OTP-PROG

Dynamic Productions Sound Services
456 Rivermoor Drive
Waterford, WI 53185
Contact: Greg Klas
Voice Phone: 414-534-3383
FAX: 414-534-3443
Mobile Phone: 414-916-0200
email: gregk@dynamicproductions.com
Webpage: http://www.dynamicproductions.com

Dynamic Productions Sound Services specializes in sound and speech development for Texas Instruments chips, including script preparation, recording, digitizing; sound effects engineering, recording, and development; Music composition, arrangement, and development; and licenser approvals. Electronics and software engineering services are available.

Experience with: TSP50C1x

Tools available: SDS5000, EVM50C10. Dynamic Productions also has extensive sound libraries, a studio, and production capabilities.

East Coast Product Design
P.O. Box 60240
Florence, MA 01062-0240
Contact: Bob Driscoll
Voice Phone: 413-586-4574
email: bdriscoll@ecpd.com

Many years of TI speech development experience dating back to the 50C4X family and the start of the 50C1x family. Software experience includes development of product code, PCM and LPC music algorithms, custom speech routine code, custom LPC sound effects routines, foreign translations of U.S. products and LCD product development for the 50C12. Speech editing experience includes production speech editing, prototype speech editing, sound effects editing and LPC music editing.

Engineering experience: 19 years of Electrical Engineering experience in the microprocessor field including 13 years in the toy and game industry. Programmed many production items including the following games for Hasbro: Talking Battleship, Mall Madness, Dream Phone, Ask Zandar, Mystery Mansion (LCD) and Merlin (LCD).

Design Experience with: TSP50C4x, TSP50C1x, TSP50C12, TSP50P11, TSP60C18/81

Tools Available: WinSDS, SDS5000, EVM50C1x, OTP-PROG

Electronic Design Consultants
906 Quail Creek Court
Southlake, Texas 76092
Contact: Alan Hochstein
Voice Phone: 817-251-9234
FAX: 817-488-9780
email: edc_speech@hotmail.com

Software and hardware design. Extensive experience designing talking toy/consumer/talking books products using the TSP50C1x family of Speech Synthesizers.

Design experience with: TSP50C1x, TSP50P11

Tools available: EVM50C1x, C compilers, CAD tools.

Mark Johnson-Williams
700 Mill Street #3
Half Moon Bay, CA 94019
Contact: Mark Johnson-Williams
Voice Phone: 650-726-6635
FAX: 650-726-6755
email: markbjw@aol.com

Design, Product development, prototypes, engineering, production for all types of consumer electronics. Specializing in speech and sound.

Design experience with: TSP50C4x, TSP50C1x, MSP50C3x, TMS50C20, TSP60Cxx, TSP53C30a

Tools available: EVM50C1x, SEB50C1x, MSD50C1x, FAB50C1x, WinSDS, EMU50C3x, MSD50C3x, OTP-PROG

Marc Jorgenson Productions
Suite 1006, Buzzer Code 43
1238 Richards Street
Vancouver, B.C. V6B 3G2
Contact: Marc Jorgenson
Voice Phone: 604-681-6140
Fax: 604-681-6540
email: mjorgens@direct.ca

Marc Jorgenson Productions specializes in quality audio design and software development for the Toy, Multimedia and Video-Game Industries.

Microsystems Development Tech. Inc.
4100 Moorpark Ave. #104
San Jose, CA 95117
Contact: Larry Polyak
Voice Phone: 408-296-4000
FAX: 408-296-5877
Email: lpolyak@msd.com
Webpage: http://www.msd.com

Services: Hardware and software design and prototyping services.

Products: MSD50C1x and MSD50C3x emulator boards, and Software based three-part music engine for TSP50C0x/1x chips.

Design experience with: TSP50C0x/1x, MSP50C3x.

Tools available: EMU50C3x, EVM50C1x, OTP-PROG, EVM50C12, MSD50C1x, MSD50C3x

Mind's Eye Technology
84 Pacific Street
Massapequa Park, NY 11762
Contact: Dennis Intravia
Voice Phone: 516-795-1580
FAX: 516-795-9180
email: DIntravia@aol.com

Hardware and software design and prototype.

Design experience with: TSP50C1x

Tools available: EVM50C1x, MSD50C1x

NAZ Electronic Design and Development
W161 N10934 Hidden Glen Ct.
Germantown, WI 53022 USA
Contact: Mark Nasgowitz
Voice/Fax Phone: 414-255-4269
Voice Phone: 414-255-7904
email: MNasgowitz@bigfoot.com

Services: Extensive experience in development of speech based products as it relates to electronic design, programming and manufacturing.

Design experience with: TSP50C1x family

Tools available: EVM50C1x

Quadravox, Inc.
1701 N. Greenville Ave, Suite 608
Richardson, TX 75081, USA
Contacts: Michel Stella, Suhas Gupta, Larry Brantingham
Voice Phone: 972-669-4002
FAX: 972-437-6382
email: info@quadravox.com
Webpage: www.quadravox.com

Products: Low-cost Qbox speech development tool and QVT-11 programmer for TSP50P11

Services: Extensive experience in speech synthesis system, algorithm and application development. Multi-lingual speech processing services for QV custom or TI standard synthesis routines using speech analysis, editing, and project development systems of our own design.

Tools available: Proprietary speech analysis and editing tools for all formats. QV designed microcode development system for TI synthesizers.

Radicle Technology, Limited
Radicle House
Restmor Way
Wallington
Surrey, SM6 7AH
England
Contact: Doug Morrison
Voice Phone: +44-181-669-6532
Fax: +44-181-669-2469
email: radicle@radicle-tech.com
Webpage: http://www.radicle-tech.com

Speech editing and software development for speech devices. Hardware design and Prototype manufacturing.

Design experience with: TMS50C20, TSP50C1x, TSP50C4x

Tools available: SDS5000, WinSDS, P11-PROG, EMU50C3x, EVM50C1x, Recording Studio

R.M. Schultz & Associates
1809 South Route 31
McHenry, IL 60050-8247
Contact: Rick Schultz
Voice Phone: 815-344-3466
FAX: 815-344-3407

Hardware and software design, prototype and production.

Design experience with: TSP50C1x, TSP50C4x

Sequel Intertainment
3000 West Olympic Blvd., Suite 2216
Santa Monica, CA 90404
or:
P.O. Box 491177
Los Angeles, CA 90049-9177
Contact: Tom Bahler
Voice Phone: 310-264-4160
Fax: 310-393-0024
mailto: tomb@sequeli.com

Experienced in creative concept design and development, project management, song and music production, audio recording and editing of speech (including very large vocabularies), ActiMates™ character motion programming, and film/tape production.

Design experience with: TSP50C1x

Tools available: WinSDS

Sol Vox Ltd.
10, Swindale
Brickhill
U.K. MK41 7TT
Contact: Raj Gunawardana
Voice Phone: 44 1234 400 237
FAX: 44 1234 342 535
email: 71524.1304@compuserve.com
Webpage: www.sol-vox.com

Experience: Worked in TI Speech devices from the very early days, and has supported large numbers of Automotive, Consumer and Telecommunications Applications. Currently Offering S/W Design, H/W Design, Product Design, and Speech Processing facilities to mainly European Markets and Customers.

Design experience with: TMS50C20, TSP50C1x, TSP50C4x

Tools available: SDS5000, P11-PROG, WinSDS, EMU50C3x, EVM50C1x, Recording Studio

Studia
1027 Avenue Du Docteur Julien Lefebvre
BP27 06270 Villeneuve-Loubet,
France
Contact: Mr Savarino J-P
Voice Phone: 33 4 93 20 29 59
FAX: 33 4 93 20 07 29

Speech editing and software development for speech devices. Software re-development on microprocessors Software re-development on pc-based programs. Electrical design, prototype manufacturing and low volume production.

Design experience with: TMS50C20, TSP50C1x, TSP50C4x

Tools available: SDS5000, P11-PROG, WinSDS, EVM50C1x

Toy Talk
2027 Stillwater Drive
Mesquite, TX 75181
Contact: Jody Davis
Voice Phone: 972-222-9434
email: JODYDAVIS@aol.com

LPC speech editing for TI chips. Experience editing projects in American, English, German, Swedish and Dutch languages.

Quotes made on a per project basis, usually per word/SFX, discount given for 100+ word projects. Quote includes all recording, editing, compression, data transfer and one comment iteration. All travel expenses paid in advance by customer.

Design experience with: TSP50C1x

Tools available: WinSDS, SDS5000

Voice Control Products, Inc.
336 West Passaic Street
Rochelle Park, NJ 07662
Contact: Andrew H. Huizi
Voice Phone: 201-845-0065
FAX: 201-843-4733
email: ahuizi@pipeline.com

Hardware and software design and prototype. Will place the design with a manufacturer for production.

Design experience with: TSP50C1x, TSP50C4x, TSP60Cxx

Tools available:

Jan Wasowicz
207 Hamilton Street
Evanston, IL 60202
Contact: Jan Wasowicz
Voice Phone: 847-475-6417
email: jwasowicz@aol.com

Speech recording and editing

Design experience with: TMS50C20, TSP50C11, TSP50P11

Tools available: SDS5000

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