Converting lcd text into speech?

Hi! I was wondering if anyone could help me find a way to convert lcd
text to speech with as few parts as possible (i.e. using a winbond or
other text to speech processor via the spi port on the lcd (?) and spi
port on the winbond (or other) text to speech processor) so that a
blind friend could listen to what his lcd display says on some good
audio equipment? The audio equipment has an lcd display on it that he
needs to hear in order to be able to use it. My understanding is that
lcd displays are at the very least mostly standardized and accept input
from a source (cpu) in ASCII format and hopefully through a type of spi
port? Thanks, later guys!

 

[J. Mark Wolf]

The approach I would take would be to "intercept" the text, with a smal
micro, as it was being sent to the LCD, then retransmit the text to
Winbond text-to-speech module.

Parallax (www.parallax.com) sells a MEMIC text-to-speech module, base
on the Winbond chipset. They also sell the BASIC Stamp that ca
intecept and re-transmit the text data, although I would recommend th
ATOM from MicroBasic (www.microbasic.com). It is a much better choic
for small controllers.


videoman@cdsnet.net Wrote:

Hi! I was wondering if anyone could help me find a way to convert lcd
text to speech with as few parts as possible (i.e. using a winbond or
other text to speech processor via the spi port on the lcd (?) and spi
port on the winbond (or other) text to speech processor) so that a
blind friend could listen to what his lcd display says on some good
audio equipment? The audio equipment has an lcd display on it that he
needs to hear in order to be able to use it. My understanding is that
lcd displays are at the very least mostly standardized and accep
input
from a source (cpu) in ASCII format and hopefully through a type o
spi
port? Thanks, later guys

--
J. Mark Wolf