The original Speak & Spell was the first of a three-part talking educational toy series that also included Speak & Read and Speak & Math.
As with any good personal project, you need a focal point, and mine was the Speak N Spell. I’d just bought one off Ebay, to go with the rest of my retro toys, and more importantly, I stumbled across a full set of sound files ‘blown’ or sampled from a Speak N Spell.
The first Speak & Spell was introduced at the summer Consumer Electronics Show in June 1978, making it one of the earliest handheld electronic devices with a visual display to use interchangeable game cartridges. The Speak & Spell was named an IEEE Milestone in 2009.
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One of the earliest computerized learning systems from the 70s and 80s, Speak & Spell was the first educational toy designed to help children learn to spell over 200 commonly misspelled words using a speech synthesizer.
Relive nostalgia with working Speak & Spell Games. Classic Texas Instruments spelling fun awaits you—get yours today!
Speak & Spell emulator with authentic recorded sound implemented in Javascript, striving for fidelity to the original toy by Texas Instruments circa 1978. Includes words from the "Noun Endings" module.
Texas Instruments Speak and Spell, original version with A-Z keyboard. From Wikimedia Commons. An educational electronic toy, introduced by Texas Instruments in 1978. It contained one of the first widely available speech synthesizer ICs, the TMS5100.
A Speak and Spell emulator for Android. Speak and Spell is a children's educational toy from the 1980s and this app is simply for nostalgic sentiment. Enjoy.