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Texas Instruments Super Speak & Read
| Date of introduction: | 1988 | Display technology: | n.a. |
| New price: | Libraries: $19.95 |
Display size: | |
| Size: | 12.0" x 21.5" x 1.7" | ||
| Weight: | 2 pounds 13 ounces | Serial No: | |
| Batteries: | 4*AA cells | Date of manufacture: | year 1991 |
| AC-Adapter: | Origin of manufacture: | USA | |
| Precision: | Integrated circuits: | TSP50C42 (CSM42008), TSP60C80
(CMM80002) Module: TSP60C21 |
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| Memories: | |||
| Program steps: | Courtesy of: | Joerg Woerner |
Texas
Instruments introduced with the Super Speak & Read a combination of the previous
Speak & Read and the position sensitive keyboard of the
Touch &
Tell game. The game could be opened and one of the supplied small booklets inserted.
The integrated voice synthesizer will ask you different questions and you have
to show with your fingertip the answers.
Dismantling
the toy reveals a smart internal construction with just a TSP50C42
Speech Synthesizer and a TSP60C80
Speech-ROM.
The Super Speak & Read uses exchangable Speech-ROM's in an
expansion port. Each of them corresponds to a set of different booklets.
Three different modules with a total of 18 booklets are known.
| Name | Books | Words | Description | Module | Wordlist |
| Basic set (blue) |
1..4 | 169 | |||
| Reading Fun 1 Expansion Pack (orange) |
5..11 | 169 | 5: Big and Little ABC's 6: Baa Baa Black Sheep 7: Andy Pandy's Candy 8: Acka Backa Boo & The Magic Word Stories 9: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star & Fat Yaks Stories 10: Alikazam Kazoo 11: One Two, Buckle My Shoe |
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| Reading Fun 2 Expansion Pack (purple) |
12..18 | 169 | 12: The Purple Cow 13: Magic E 14: Dirty Bill & The Monster Stories 15: Teddy Bear Teddy Bear 16: Wiggle Waggle Jelly-beans 17: Apples and Bananas 18: Hink Pink |
Texas Instruments developed some country specific versions of the Super Speak & Read, currently we know:
| Country | Name | Speech ROM |
| US | Super Speak & Read | TSP60C80 (CMM80002) |
| US | Ready...Set...Read! | TSP60C80 (CMM80002) |
| France | La Lecture Magique | CMM19015, CMM19019 |
| Germany | Lesefreund | CMM19018, CMM19028 |
| Italy | La Lettura Magica | CMM19021, CMM19029 |
| United Kingdom | Chatter-Book | CMM19010, CMM19027 |
Up to now we don't know the differences to the Ready...Set...Read!.
The picture on the left side displays the game in the opened state. Find a picture of the closed box here.
The toy is intended for players ages 3 to 7.
The Super Speak & Read got later a smaller sibbling with identical booklets and hardware, the Magic Reading Desk. Don't miss the related Touch & Discover and the smaller Teddy Touch & Tell.
If you have additions to the above article please email: joerg@datamath.org.
© Joerg Woerner, December 5, 2001. No reprints without written permission.