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My family didn't have this phone, but the description of the janky voice recognition, timeframe, and current-day obscurity reminds me of the Texas Instruments V
by 0xcde4c3db 3y ago
My family didn't have this phone, but the description of the janky voice recognition, timeframe, and current-day obscurity reminds me of the Texas Instruments Voyager edutainment headset (kind of a pain to search for because TI currently has a "Voyage" calculator family that people routinely misspell as "Voyager"). It combined speech synthesis and voice recognition, and I think you were supposed to follow along with each cartridge-based program in a booklet (which I'm not sure I ever had). The only really distinct memory I have of it is that you could change the voice to one of several presets and it would ask in each voice "to sound like this?".
- robocat 3y agoThe phone was from the 80's: it is possible the voice recognition was a single chip solution from TI - they did other specialised ICs. If so multiple devices could have the same voice recognition. Or maybe a firmware solution for a TI processor? I did a quick search, but finding data sheets from the 80's without knowing the part number is difficult. I tried to find a schematic for the FV-1000 but no luck there either.