Development Facilities for dsPIC

[KeithSloan]

Are Matrix Multimedia planning any development facilities for dsPIC.

Thanks

[Steve]

We have looked into dsPICs previously and decided that the demand for them was not that high.

However, we have recently began discussing them again.

Do you have any particular requirements?

[KeithSloan]

Mentioned dsPIC's and speech recognition to an old college who worked in IBM voice he expressed an interest and wanted a recommendation for a development board. He is interested in Text to Speech and personally I am not sure dsPIC would provide better than mechanical voice like SpeakJet http://www.speechchips.com/shop/item.aspx?itemid=6. or how signal processing would help text to speech. One thing I might like to explore is using it for Echo Cancellation. I use Skype a lot and apparently it implements echo cancellation but the end result is that it might as well not bother. I would therefore like to have access to a development board that had a mic in, line out ( To go to PC ) another line in ( From PC speaker ) and a final line out to feed PC speaker. dsPIC in the middle to hopefully do echo cancellation. I think it would also need to support Codec chip and ideally ICD 2. From a training point of view ( Which I assume is Matrix Multimedia's focus ) then ability to use speech recognition, apparently it would recognise upto 100 command words would be of interest to control e-blocks by speech.