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New Blazie Emulators!
Lots fixed. New settings, including serial port mode and the click at utterance starts. Clock works. Let's see, flash formatting should make the right chirps now. Slovak firmware added, for testing and feedback. Thanks to all who reported problems. You can also now use a tool to import and export your flash into a .img file.
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Tamas G

Also released: SSInger, a free VST3, Clap plug-in to make the chip sing. This can be used in any DAW though was not tested on Mac and Linux. I want to give @spacepup a huge huge shoutout for the work put into the pull request and making the idea come alive so quickly. Without you, this would be nowhere today. It's A JUCE (9.0.3) instrument (VST3, CLAP, AU on macOS, LV2 on Linux, and a standalone app; Windows, macOS universal, Linux x86-64 and arm64)
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Tamas G

@spacepup might be able to look into it! I'm already building 0.75 because I don't like SAPI bundling portable Python still, and I don't like Android and Linux not having Accent and Speakout. I just yelled at Claude for it. Gosh how could it make it a gap like that.
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Spacedog

I'm glad I contributed! There are only a few things i have to work with, or maybe you can if you have time. It only has 54 or 56 of the phonemes out of the 63 or 64. That, and when i'm in tour rig mode, the mod wheel should change the filter of all of them at once, and there should be parameters for the filter for the second SSI, third SSI, etc
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ground024

This is really cool. I was shocked how well it worked, so well in fact I was able to use it over NVDA remote on a MAC with qemu and windows. Had The sound coming out via a Sonobus stream. Lots of emulation. Nice work on hooking the keyboard keys so that braille input actually works, even over NVDA remote. Took me five minutes to remember how to turn key echo off, it's been a while. Can't believe you got this working so well. mad props!
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Peter Vágner

@Tamas G Oh, I've looked into the readme file for the linux emu and it turns out you are looking for feedback. So I have to confirm that it's indeed working great. I'm using blazie_emu_gtk on x64 linux. While using emulated braille &n speak I turn off orca speech and it's all amazing.

Really a good work.

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Tamas G

@N589KS so those used the Doubletalk chips, which are a new beast entirely - the RC8650 and such. SSI263 was not used on Braille Lite M-series. The BLT 2000 should be in there though, hmm. There are already some efforts for the DoubleTalk work, which is promising, especially with the real ROM running under emulation and the board getting a nice decompile from Chris Toth.
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