list of the phrases used?

You can find them in the TRIVIA part here: https://www.arcade-history.com/?n=wizard-of-wor-model-961&page=detail&id=3179

At first glance it may seem discouraging, the sounds are a chaos, but the good points are that the game doesn't hang, and that we probably can select better phrases to send to the Speakeasy.

Cool, Thank you very much, it has a strange accent , but at least sounds I have to find out how to stop sounds of Speakeasy when speech is finished, probably i should send a silent value at the end.

Geco, if you have the source of the game, maybe you can put here a list of the phrases used?

Sure, I upload that part of the source, each sentence contains the allophones also. And the tables of Speakeasy, and Vortex definitions.

This version sends a 200ms pause at the end of each phrase, so at least the noise should be stopped.

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Why there are codes higher than 03Fh on the allophones strings?

For example: "Hey, insert coin.":  013h, 01bh, 060h, 04bh, 062h, 03eh, 03eh, 027h, 00dh, 01fh, 07ah, 06ah, 03eh, 059h, 075h, 034h, 009h, 022h, 00dh, 03eh


Edit: Maybe they add externally a tone  on bit 6 so in that case it must be ignored on Speakeasy.

Yes, bit 6,7 increase the pitch of voice.
I created a program to collect all Speakeasy voices, it sends 4 times the 64 allophones, to check if bit 6,7 has any effect on speakeasy. There are 2 versions SPEAKEASY1 sends the data in 50Hz interrupt, SPEAKEASY just wait the end of the end of allophone, this would be the best for recording samples, but if it is too fast then SPEAKEASY1 will give a better result.

The two versions of the program seem to last the same, because the protocol is the same as the paralllel one: The Z80 puts /Strobe low, the , that indicates to SP0256-AL2 that the data is ready and it puts /Ready high. Once read and executed, it puts the /Ready signal low, that indicates the Z80 that more data can be sent, then the  Z80 puts /Strobe high until the data is ready to be read.

As I can read on the datasheets, the Vortex chip also waits for the sound to be end, but it has the additional STOP allophone that seems the same as the PA0, with the same time lenght.

Comparing the two chips, I think it could be very easy to adapt the Vortex chip to the EP, only cloning the Speakeasy design. The two chips have similar signals.

Could you please create a new wav based on this new program?
I do not find all 60 voices, this program runs once through all, and it have 3 interrupts between each.

Thank you very much
The program waits for Ready, Vortex sends back busy/ready signal through bit 7 of port 12.
I think the allophone continues to play on Speakeasy, because i do not wait until Speakeasy reports back ready state with acknowledge, it is done in the next interrupt, the last voice remained active, because last sound did not get acknowledge, in newest version the last wait should remain active.

so the method was the following:
1. check if Speakeasy is ready
2a. if yes, then acknowledge, and send allophone
2b. if no then do nothing

Modified method:
1. check if Speakeasy is ready
2a. if yes, then acknowledge, and send allophone
2b. if no then do nothing
3. when sentence is over, send a wait