Commercial Products
- Covox Speech Thing. The simplest hardware DAC, bundled with speech synthesis software, marketed originally as part of voice synthesis and recognition system.
- Covox Voice Master - speech and music processor.
- Disney Sound Source. A somewhat popular device, marketed by Disney Software in early 1990s, appeared to be a sophisticated Covox-idea based DAC. It consisted of 2 parts: a DAC plugged into printer port and separate amplifier / speaker box. The low price of $14 got the device some popularity. It used external power (ran on batteries) and involved some circuitry to turn it on / off. Sound quality was also superior due to sound filtering schemes used. Games that run on Disney Sound Source should run without problems on simpler Covoxes; however, not all software made for simple Covoxes will run on Disney Sound Source, as it requires additional command bytes to be sent to additional control port to operate.
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