I recently discovered a National Semiconductor Digitalker IC in my collection. This one is packaged in a yellow box supplied by RS Componenets in the UK. I also have 2 of the Digitalker speech ROMS.

Here's a closer look at the programming behind my animatronic mouth. Using Arduino, Python, and a few open-source libraries, I take a typed sentence and convert it into an animation sequence.

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