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I still have my BBC Computer from then. It has a Speech Rom [1]. It is the voice of the first ever BBC tv news reader Kenneth Kendall. He was also in 2001: A Sp
by SixSigma 11y ago
I still have my BBC Computer from then. It has a Speech Rom [1]. It is the voice of the first ever BBC tv news reader Kenneth Kendall. He was also in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
[1] says the chips are a TMS5220 and a TMS6100. It was pretty good fun making the computer speak using BBC Basic.
[1] http://www.retro-kit.co.uk/page.cfm/content/Acorn-Speech-Synthesiser-Upgrade/ http://www.retro-kit.co.uk/page.cfm/content/Acorn-Speech-Syn...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Kendall https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Kendall