Voice Guidance

Voice Guidance

Feature 1. No need for studio recording

Using Epson speech & audio LSIs for your products featuring voice guidance functions means there's no need to arrange recording studios or hire professional voice performers. This allows you to significantly reduce the product development costs and time to market. The TTS tool available from Epson makes it easy to create or modify your speech phrases. Japanese, English, and Korean language versions are now available.

Feature 2. Excellent sound quality for messages up to 4 times longer

Epson's highly efficient encoding format allows for longer phrases with excellent sound quality. The integrated high-quality 16-bit DAC produces a "silky voice" that can be coupled with high quality sound effects.

Feature 3. Easy to integrate

Epson's voice guidance LSIs use a message protocol based on asynchronous serial interface. This means they are easily integrated into a wide range of host devices and microcontrollers, reducing development time and costs, and helping achieve faster time to market.

Feature 4. Easy Development by S1V3G340 + EPSON Speech Tool

The combination of the All in One PC tool "Silky Voice" generator, and use of external SPI-Flash with the S1V3G340 makes it easy to create, write and evaluate voice data. The created voice ROM data can be written to SPI-Flash from a Host CPU via the S1V3G340. The use of high-quality audio and a high-compression format also enables the loading of large voice data capacity.

"Silky Voice" Creation tool Voice Sample

Here are some sample voices for Epson's audio and speech LSIs created by our PC-based TTS tool. Click the following links to experience studio-quality voices with high quality sound effects.

Voice guidance LSI lineup

Series name	S1V3G340	S1V30080
Status	MP	MP
Download	199KB	258KB
Power supply	5.5v-2.2 single
Clock	32.768kHz or 12.288MHz	8.192MHz(fs:8kHz) 16.384MHz(fs:16kHz)
Host interface	SPI/UART/I2C (Command control)	SPI/I2C (Command Control) standalone mode
Sampling frequency	16kHz	4,8,12,16kHz
Sound Decode Format	Epson Original Format
Bit rate	16/24/32/40kbps	8bit/10bit mode
Melody Synthesizer	-	Supports 5ch,5 Octaves
Sound Phrase Combination Function	No limitaion on combination
Setting of DelayBetween Phrases	0 ms, 20-2047 ms (1 ms step)	0ms-1000ms (10 ms step)
Sound Data Streaming Regeneraiotion	Supported by the command control through the host interface	Melody data streaming supported
Integrated ROM Size (Time)	ROMless	Approx.30 sec (fs.8kHz) Approx.15 sec (fs.16kHz)
DAC	Highly accurate 16-bit DAC	10-bit DAC
Package	QFP13-52pin (10mm □, 0.65mm pitch) QFP12-48(7mm□, 0.5mm pitch) QFN7-48(7mm□, 0.5mm pitch)	QFP13-52 (10mm□,0.65mm pitch) QFP12-48 (7mm□,0.5mm pitch)
Languages supported by TTS tool	TTS Tool Support Language Asia: Chinese, Japanese, Korean Americas: American English, American Spanish, Canadian French Europe: British English, French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish （No language restricitons when used for studio recording)
Evaluation Board	Supported
Sample Code(For the Host)	Supported

*1: Estimate when used at 16 kbps

Voice guidance LSI:S1V3G340, Evaluation Board

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