Speak & Spell
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- Details
- Description
- Date Introduced
- 1978
- Photographer
- Richards, Mark
- Dimensions
- 1 1/4 x 7 x 10 in.
- Manufacturer
- Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI)
- Copyright Owner
- © Mark Richards
- Location
- United States
- Keywords
- Signal Processing; DSP; Synthesizer; Audio; Output
- Object ID
- X1311.97
Speak & Spell used the first single-chip voice synthesizer, and stored full words on the largest available memory chips (128Kbit each). It was the first commercial use of digital signal processing, later used in several films and digital music.
