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I wonder how this performs compared to the "voice recognition" VCP200 chip sold by Radio Shack in the eighties (maybe early nineties?). https://21stdigitalhome.blogspot.com/2013/06/vcp200-voice-re...

Also be interesting to know if that Voice Control Products ever had a real design win.

I gather the VCP200 was a mask-programmed M6804 microcontroller. The M6804 was a strange and obscure beast, apparently a cost-reduced, internally serial ("1-bit"), partial reimplementation of the M6805, which was one of the first Motorola 8-bit microcontrollers based on the 6800. Max bus speed of 2.75MHz, with an instruction cycle time of 44 microseconds. 32 bytes of RAM and 1K mask-programmed ROM. No ADC. http://www.bitsavers.org/components/motorola/6804/M6804_MCU_...

One should be able to do better with about any modern microcontroller. Then again, for all I know the VCP200 was not fit to even the modest tasks (looks like toy/novelty/hobbyist) it was marketed for back then.