Create and play very simple sounds?

Using Arduino Audio
#1

Most of the things I do with Arduino are just toys and the like. I find that I learn a lot every time I take an interest in a new project. With that in mind, I wan to "hack" a baby doll. I would like to make a baby doll that says slightly creepy things instead of the normal goo-goo stuff. What I need is a place to start.

I would like to do this with minimum parts. The board inside the baby doll I picked up to play with is a small thing that just reads an input and plays a sound, when the input is repeated another sound plays, and the system just loops through sounds. I would like to get as close to that as possible. I guess just for the sake of staying within the nature of the original toy.

If this all works the way I think of it in my head I would eventually take this project off the Uno I have setting here and put it on another chip and on a board inside the doll that would just set around my office waiting for one of my friends/family members to pick up this seemingly out of place doll only to find it isn't normal at all.

I just want to do something fun. What I need is someone to point to the information that will lead me down the right road. I don't want to have to use a memory card and some shield, the doll just has a small chip with everything going on right there. I expect and will accept limitations.

I know what I need is out there, I just don't know enough to know how to find it.

#2

You can get about 3.5 seconds of sound in a Uno's program memory. Is that enough?

#3

I can work with that. Does that leave enough room for a simple input to trigger said sounds and a means to rotate through a few sounds?

Can you tell me where to start with what you are talking about? If nothing else I'll learn that and see what I can do with it. If I have to look back and find another way I have learned a new thing or two along the way and that is worth something too.

Can you suggest another way?

Honestly I could ask 1000 questions but I don't want to flood you with my random wondering. I feel certain getting started will lead to something else that will in turn move me along my way. In the end I normally end up doing something different than my original intent, but such seems to be the way of the discovery and invention.

Thank you for your reply.

#4

There are lots of examples on the net, one is here

But it think the simplest example is unfortunately in a book. However it is my book
http://www.apress.com/9781484217207

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