While there have been many projects for voice recorder/playback boards, they all suffer from one major drawback.

They can only record and playback sounds (usually voice) that are recorded by a little onboard electret microphone. You push a button and speak into the microphone and that’s about all you can do. You can’t really add any exciting sound effects or enhance your voice in any way.

With the Message Player all that’s changed. Now you can record, mix and edit sophisticated sound files with your PC and download them to be played when and where you want.

OK, so where would you use the Message Player? The answer is any place that you want short audible messages to be heard.

What about a personalised front door bell or a warm message to welcome shoppers, or maybe a talking car alarm to tell you your lights are on?

A unique application could be to replace your telephone ring sound with a voice message like "Hey you, answer the phone"! All you would need to do is detect the ring signal and trigger the Message Player to play the message.