Text to Speech Bullhorn

This is the easiest way I've found to make an effective text to speech bullhorn for a friend who is deaf. Cause, you know, it makes them even more rad.

It is not an especially satisfying or educational build project, and it requires you to buy some proprietary hardware and software. I submit this for people who just want something that works well.

Step 1 Select a Bullhorn

Bullhorn aka Megaphone aka voice-of-god.
The most important feature for ease of building is that it has a detachable microphone input jack. This is typically a 3.5mm mono plug as seen in this photo. You can find many of these on ebay by searching on the term "bullhorn".

15 watts is a good level for polite social interaction in a noisy bar, go at least 25 watts if you want something that's louder than you can yell.

Comments

[PSPerson]

interesting... this could be fun if you used the my mobiler app and hid the contraption within the range of wifi...

[Phoghat]

My , my how the times do change. A similar program was very popular some years ago. I only demo'd it once as it was very expensive. I never checked the code, so you know, I'm just saying

[lemonie]

The text has to be inputted into the phone, but the idea is to pump it at high volume into someone's ear, rather than show them the text? (Very amusingly moronic!) Please put up a picture of this in use in a noisy bar - it would look so much better than image 1! L

[avidd]

I think this will do well at burning man, It's been amusing so far (and moronic, yes!) Pics to follow~