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  • Markedly less success with three TTS boards from AliExpress

    Markedly less success with three TTS boards from AliExpress

    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:

    Yes, I added the 6658 label so I could tell the boards apart

    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:

    NameTypeLink
    msgaPolyphonic Chord Beep
    msgbPolyphonic Chord Beep
    msgcPolyphonic Chord Beep
    msgdPolyphonic Chord Beep
    msgePolyphonic Chord Beep
    msgfPolyphonic Chord Beep
    msggPolyphonic Chord Beep
    msghPolyphonic Chord Beep
    msgiPolyphonic Chord Beep
    msgjPolyphonic Chord Beep
    msgkPolyphonic Chord Beep
    msglPolyphonic Chord Beep
    msgmPolyphonic Chord Beep
    msgnPolyphonic Chord Beep
    sound101Prompt Tone
    sound102Prompt Tone
    sound103Prompt Tone
    sound104Prompt Tone
    sound105Prompt Tone
    sound106Prompt Tone
    sound107Prompt Tone
    sound108Prompt Tone
    sound109Prompt Tone
    sound110Prompt Tone
    sound111Prompt Tone
    sound112Prompt Tone
    sound113Prompt Tone
    sound114Prompt Tone
    sound115Prompt Tone
    sound116Prompt Tone
    sound117Prompt Tone
    sound118Prompt Tone
    sound119Prompt Tone
    sound120Prompt Tone
    sound121Prompt Tone
    sound122Prompt Tone
    sound123Prompt Tone
    sound124Prompt Tone
    sound201phone ringtone
    sound202phone ringtone
    sound203phone ringtone
    sound204phone ringing
    sound205phone ringtone
    sound206door bell
    sound207door bell
    sound208doorbell
    sound209door bell
    sound210alarm
    sound211alarm
    sound212alarm
    sound213alarm
    sound214wind chimes
    sound215wind chimes
    sound216wind chimes
    sound217wind chimes
    sound218wind chimes
    sound219wind chimes
    sound301alarm
    sound302alarm
    sound303alarm
    sound304alarm
    sound305alarm
    sound306alarm
    sound307alarm
    sound308alarm
    sound309alarm
    sound310alarm
    sound311alarm
    sound312alarm
    sound313alarm
    sound314alarm
    sound315alert-emergency
    sound316alert-emergency
    sound317alert-emergency
    sound318alert-emergency
    sound319alert-emergency
    sound401credit card successful
    sound402credit card successful
    sound403credit card successful
    sound404credit card successful
    sound405credit card successful
    sound406credit card successful
    sound407credit card successful
    sound408successfully swiped the card
    sound501cuckoo
    sound502error
    sound503applause
    sound504laser
    sound505laser
    sound506landing
    sound507gunshot
    sound601alarm sound / air raid siren (long)
    sound602prelude to weather forecast (long)
    SYN-6658 Sound Reference

    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.