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Equivalent components from Texas Instruments?

Im working on a project for the disabled persons which recogonises the breathe patterns and simulates them as words with certain algorithms,
Now TEXAS INSTRUMENTS have come up to fund me by providing the parts required by me and they gurantee to buy me a patent on my name. All they require is to use almost all components of their own,I've managed to find the equivalent components, but couldn't figure out all please help me out . Any kind of suggeston is appreciated.

The parts I use:

1. Arduino Uno
2. Mems Microphone ADMP401 [MEMS Microphone][2]
3. Emic 2 Text to Speech Convertor [https://www.sparkfun.com/products/11711]



Similar components from Texas I found on Texas Instruments:

1. MSP430 LaunchPad [http://www.ti.com/tool/msp-exp430g2#0]

other two components are providing a varied views and opinions
I'm just a begineer and need a hand to work on these.


If I'm worng on choosing any of the components please suggest me.

Schematic link:

drive.google.com/.../view
 
  [2]: www.sparkfun.com/.../9868

  • I am interested in your project and quite willing to help with no strings attached.

    I am not a TI employee but I have been participating in this MSP430 Forum for more then 10 years. Your TI contact might even know me by my nickname Old_Cow_Yellow aka OCY.

    I have a few questions. Please do not disclose anything that may potentially impede your patent application in the future.

    I assume the system you developed can be battery operated and hoisted on the chest or waist. The microphone has to be close to the mouth and the breath sensor yet somewhere else. There is no reason to go wireless between the microphone or breath sensor and the system, which would require extra sets of different batteries. Is this assumption correct?

    You did not describe the sensor to detect breath patterns. Do you already have it? Is it to be mounted on a chest strap or attached to the breathing tube? What is nature of the electric signal that it sends? (Digital? Analog? Voltage? Frequency?)

    Roughly how many different breath patterns can you detect? Is it you intention to assign some of them to the alphabet so that the user can spell out the word he/she wants to sound? Or, is it enough to only assign them to often-needed sentences, phrases, or words? I ask this because I want to know if we should use text-to-speech (which is more difficult to do) or simply play back pre-recorded voice (which is easier to do).

    Should we assign a few of the breath patterns to other commands (such as turn on/off the light, sound/cancel an alarm, and wheelchair controls). If so, what other interface (in addition to generating voice) do we need?

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