DATAMATH CALCULATOR MUSEUM
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DATAMATH CALCULATOR MUSEUM |
Texas Instruments Speak & Spell Compact
| Date of introduction: | 1982 | Display technology: | |
| New price: | Display size: | n.a | |
| Size: | 5.3" x 8.5" x 1.5" | ||
| Weight: | 9 ounces | Serial No: | |
| Batteries: | 9V | Date of manufacture: | wk 30 year 1982 |
| AC-Adapter: | Origin of manufacture: | USA | |
| Precision: | Integrated circuits: | TMC0281, CD8011, CD2354 | |
| Memories: | |||
| Program steps: | Courtesy of: | Joerg Woerner | |
| Download manual: (Wordlist) | 
(US: 36 kB) |
Think
about the original Speak & Spell without a
display. A slightly different version was sold in United Kingdom as Speak &
Write.
Don't miss the Les Maths Magiques sold in France.
The Speak & Spell project was started in the year 1976 and
created with the TMC0280 the first one-chip LPC speech synthesizer. Later refinements to the
Speak & Spell chips resulted in the TMS5100, 5200 and 5220 Voice Synthesis Processors
(VSP) for use in
commercial products needing synthetic speech voice output from digitally-stored words and
phrases. Speech data was stored in in up to sixteen 128K ROM chips (TMC0350).
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Press the Play button and
get some real Speak & Spell tunes. (MP3 files provided by Dirk Bohlig) |
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Press the Incantor button and get some records taken with modifies Speak & Spell's. |
The Speak & Spell compact uses still the same synthesizer technology to reproduce human speech with
tuned voices stored in ROM's.
Press the Play-button to get some samples:
| ABC |  |
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| I am, you are | ||
| Letter Stumper: Begin | ||
| Letter Stumper: Correct | ||
| Letter Stumper: Wrong | ||
| Spelling: Level A | ||
| Perfect score | Interested in the
music of Dirk ? Follow this link to the MP3-site. |
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| Complete level | ||
| Goodbye | You are my visitor: |
If you have additions to the above article please email: joerg@datamath.org.
© Dirk Bohlig and Joerg Woerner, December 5, 2001. No reprints without written permission.
