--- title: Getting The VIC-20 To Speak Again | daily.dev description: A maker recreated speech synthesis capability for the Commodore VIC-20 by building a modern equivalent of the vintage Votrax Type and Talk synthesizer. The... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/getting-the-vic-20-to-speak-again-ve5tuoq3r twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Getting The VIC-20 To Speak Again | daily.dev og:description: A maker recreated speech synthesis capability for the Commodore VIC-20 by building a modern equivalent of the vintage Votrax Type and Talk synthesizer. The... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/getting-the-vic-20-to-speak-again-ve5tuoq3r og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Ve5Tuoq3R.png og:image:alt: Getting The VIC-20 To Speak Again og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Getting The VIC-20 To Speak Again **[Hackaday](https://daily.dev/sources/hackaday)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A maker recreated speech synthesis capability for the Commodore VIC-20 by building a modern equivalent of the vintage Votrax Type and Talk synthesizer. The solution uses an Arduino as a serial bridge between the VIC-20's 300 bps port and modern Speakjet/TTS256 chips running at 9600 bps, with an LM386 amplifier driving a speaker. The system successfully reads text from the Adventureland game cartridge, producing robotic speech similar to the original 1980s hardware. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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