EPISODE 28: SPEAK & SPELL

The Speak & Spell line is a series of electronic hand-held[1][2][3] child computers by Texas Instruments that consisted of a TMC0280 linear predictive coding speech synthesizer, a keyboard, and a receptor slot to receive one of a collection of ROM game[4] library modules. The first Speak & Spell was introduced at the summer Consumer Electronics Show in June 1978,[5] making it one of the earliest handheld[2] electronic[5] devices with a visual display[6] to use interchangeable game cartridges.[7] The company Basic Fun brought back the classic Speak & Spell in 2019 although with some minor changes.[8]

The Speak & Spell was named an IEEE Milestone in 2009.[9]

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