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One of the vocabulary words in the TI-99/4A's speech synthesizer accessory was "UHOH". If you used CALL SAY from Speech Editor or Extended BASIC, it would spell
by bitwize 3y ago
One of the vocabulary words in the TI-99/4A's speech synthesizer accessory was "UHOH". If you used CALL SAY from Speech Editor or Extended BASIC, it would spell out words that weren't in its vocabulary and emit an "UHOH" for any symbol it didn't understand (and it understood very few, mainly + to reduce the delay between words like "SIX+TEEN" and # for multiword vocabulary items like "#TEXAS INSTRUMENTS#" and "#HANDHELD UNIT#" (early TI-ism for joysticks)). If you made the mistake of leaving alpha lock off and typing your speech string in lowercase, you got a long stream of UHOHs.