Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club

Meeting on Wednesday 7th December at 7.45pm

Elesar

Rob Sprowson of Elesar will start by taking a look at the introduction of speech synthesis on the BBC Micro, how that worked down at the silicon level, then move on to how to recreate the experience using PIC microcontrollers developed on RISC OS.

Breaking free of the limited vocabulary of the past, desktop applications can now Speak entirely with software implementations — one example being TextEase. Plus Rob will take a sneak preview of some upcoming features for version 6 of the package.

Rob will be visiting us in person at the West Yorkshire Sports & Social Club.

This ‘hybrid’ meeting is open to all: it will be taking place at the West Yorkshire Sports & Social Club, but will also be accessible using the Zoom conferencing service for those who can’t or don’t wish to attend in person. Naturally we would prefer as many people to attend in person as possible, as we have a ‘live’ guest.

IMPORTANT: For those attending on Zoom, this meeting will use a different set of meeting details from the usual ones. Zoom invitations will be sent out ahead of the meeting, but only to those who email info2022@wrocc.org.uk to request one. If you would like to be part of the meeting (and don’t receive an invite in the next 24 hours as a member of WROCC), please RSVP — at the latest by the end of Tuesday 6th December.

If you haven’t used Zoom before, we suggest that before Wednesday you try to join the Zoom test meeting at https://zoom.us/test on the device that you intend to use, in order to check that your system works OK. You will not require a Zoom account to take part.

Past Meetings

Videos of previous meetings can be found in our links to past meetings at https://www.wrocc.org.uk/meetings

Club Membership

Annual membership of the Club is available for those living near and far at £10, but new members receive a 50% discount (ie. £5) in their first year.

Members receive:

• A PDF newsletter with all the latest news and articles.
• Entry to meetings, when we’re allowed to meet in person again.
• Access to the WROCC Internet Discussion Forum.

For further information, please email info2022@wrocc.org.uk or visit the Club’s website at https://www.wrocc.org.uk