A single-chip text-to-speech synthesis device utilizing analog non-volatile multi-level flash storage

Author

Jackson, G. ; Awsare, S.V. ; Ming-Bing Chang ; Wen-Kuei Chen ; Doan, R. ; Gaddy, L. ; Holzmann, P. ; Kahn, D. ; Lin, R. ; Macchi, M. ; Raina, A. ; Saar, H. ; Wu, J. ; Yang, B.

Author_Institution

Winbond Electron. Corp., San Jose, CA, USA

Volume

1

fYear

2002

fDate

7-7 Feb. 2002

Firstpage

376

Abstract

A single-chip solution for text-to-speech synthesis uses analog non-volatile multi-level storage of a corpus of natural speech elements. An embedded micro-controller performs the algorithmic tasks of text-to-speech synthesis. The 80 mm/sup 2/ chip fabricated in 0.5 /spl mu/m flash CMOS operates at 24 MHz and 3.0 V at 90 mW.

Keywords

CMOS memory circuits; analogue storage; flash memories; microcontrollers; speech processing; speech synthesis; 0.5 micron; 24 MHz; 3 V; 90 mW; algorithmic tasks; analog nonvolatile multi-level flash storage; embedded micro-controller; flash CMOS chip fabrication; natural speech elements; single-chip text-to-speech synthesis device; text-to-speech synthesis; Hardware; Home appliances; Iterative algorithms; Nonvolatile memory; Phase change materials; Safety devices; Speech processing; Speech synthesis; System-on-a-chip; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Solid-State Circuits Conference, 2002. Digest of Technical Papers. ISSCC. 2002 IEEE International

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7335-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISSCC.2002.993089

Filename

993089