The other week’s success with the SYN6988 TTS chip was not repeated with three other modules I ordered, alas. Two of them I couldn’t get a peep out of, the other didn’t support English text-to-speech.
SYN6658
This one looks remarkably like the SYN6988:
Apart from the main chip, the only difference appears to be that the board’s silkscreen says YS-V6 V1.15 where the SYN6988’s said YS-V6E V1.02.
To be fair to YuTone (the manufacturer), they claim this only supports Chinese as an input language. If you feed it English, at best you’ll get it spelling out the letters. It does have quite a few amusing sounds, though, so at least you can make it beep and chime. My MicroPython library for the VoiceTX SYN6988 text to speech module can drive it as far as I understand it.
Here are the sounds:
| Name | Type | Link |
|---|---|---|
| msga | Polyphonic Chord Beep | |
| msgb | Polyphonic Chord Beep | |
| msgc | Polyphonic Chord Beep | |
| msgd | Polyphonic Chord Beep | |
| msge | Polyphonic Chord Beep | |
| msgf | Polyphonic Chord Beep | |
| msgg | Polyphonic Chord Beep | |
| msgh | Polyphonic Chord Beep | |
| msgi | Polyphonic Chord Beep | |
| msgj | Polyphonic Chord Beep | |
| msgk | Polyphonic Chord Beep | |
| msgl | Polyphonic Chord Beep | |
| msgm | Polyphonic Chord Beep | |
| msgn | Polyphonic Chord Beep | |
| sound101 | Prompt Tone | |
| sound102 | Prompt Tone | |
| sound103 | Prompt Tone | |
| sound104 | Prompt Tone | |
| sound105 | Prompt Tone | |
| sound106 | Prompt Tone | |
| sound107 | Prompt Tone | |
| sound108 | Prompt Tone | |
| sound109 | Prompt Tone | |
| sound110 | Prompt Tone | |
| sound111 | Prompt Tone | |
| sound112 | Prompt Tone | |
| sound113 | Prompt Tone | |
| sound114 | Prompt Tone | |
| sound115 | Prompt Tone | |
| sound116 | Prompt Tone | |
| sound117 | Prompt Tone | |
| sound118 | Prompt Tone | |
| sound119 | Prompt Tone | |
| sound120 | Prompt Tone | |
| sound121 | Prompt Tone | |
| sound122 | Prompt Tone | |
| sound123 | Prompt Tone | |
| sound124 | Prompt Tone | |
| sound201 | phone ringtone | |
| sound202 | phone ringtone | |
| sound203 | phone ringtone | |
| sound204 | phone ringing | |
| sound205 | phone ringtone | |
| sound206 | door bell | |
| sound207 | door bell | |
| sound208 | doorbell | |
| sound209 | door bell | |
| sound210 | alarm | |
| sound211 | alarm | |
| sound212 | alarm | |
| sound213 | alarm | |
| sound214 | wind chimes | |
| sound215 | wind chimes | |
| sound216 | wind chimes | |
| sound217 | wind chimes | |
| sound218 | wind chimes | |
| sound219 | wind chimes | |
| sound301 | alarm | |
| sound302 | alarm | |
| sound303 | alarm | |
| sound304 | alarm | |
| sound305 | alarm | |
| sound306 | alarm | |
| sound307 | alarm | |
| sound308 | alarm | |
| sound309 | alarm | |
| sound310 | alarm | |
| sound311 | alarm | |
| sound312 | alarm | |
| sound313 | alarm | |
| sound314 | alarm | |
| sound315 | alert-emergency | |
| sound316 | alert-emergency | |
| sound317 | alert-emergency | |
| sound318 | alert-emergency | |
| sound319 | alert-emergency | |
| sound401 | credit card successful | |
| sound402 | credit card successful | |
| sound403 | credit card successful | |
| sound404 | credit card successful | |
| sound405 | credit card successful | |
| sound406 | credit card successful | |
| sound407 | credit card successful | |
| sound408 | successfully swiped the card | |
| sound501 | cuckoo | |
| sound502 | error | |
| sound503 | applause | |
| sound504 | laser | |
| sound505 | laser | |
| sound506 | landing | |
| sound507 | gunshot | |
| sound601 | alarm sound / air raid siren (long) | |
| sound602 | prelude to weather forecast (long) |
Where I bought it: Electronic Component Module Store : Chinese-to-real-life Speech Synthesis Playing Module TTS Announcer SYN6658 of Bank Bus Broadcasting.
Auto-translated manual:
Unknown “TTS Text-to-speech Broadcast Synthesis Module”
All I could get from this one was a power-on chime. The main chip has had its markings ground off, so I’ve no idea what it is.
Red and black wires seem to be standard 5 V power. Yellow seems to be serial in, white is not connected.
Where I bought it: Electronic Component Module Store / Chinese TTS Text-to-speech Broadcast Synthesis Module MCU Serial Port Robot Plays Prompt Advertising Board
HLK-V40 Speech Synthesis Module
In theory, this little board has a lot going for it: wifi, bluetooth, commands sent by AT commands. In practice, I couldn’t get it to do a thing.
Where I bought it: HI-LINK Component Store / HLK-V40 Speech Synthesis Module TTS Pure Text to Speech Playback Hailinco AI intelligent Speech Synthesis Broadcast
I’ve still got a SYN6288 to look at, plus a XFS5152CE TTS that’s in the mail that may or may not be in the mail. The SYN6988 is the best of the bunch so far.