EPISODE · Jun 15, 2023 · 23 MIN
Ep. 8: TWiTH - TI introduces the Speak & Spell
from Frontier Podcast by Gun.io
As the first educational toy to utilize speech that wasn't pre-recorded to a tape or phonograph, the Texas Instruments' Speak & Spell was groundbreaking, along with its brethren, Speak & Read and Speak & Math. In This Week in Tech History, Abbey and Tyler talk about the implications it had for future toys, its importance to the educational tech movement, and why Tyler's Speak & Spell seemed to be stuck at Speak. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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As the first educational toy to utilize speech that wasn't pre-recorded to a tape or phonograph, the Texas Instruments' Speak & Spell was groundbreaking, along with its brethren, Speak & Read and Speak & Math. In This Week in Tech History, Abbey and Tyler talk about the implications it had for future toys, its importance to the educational tech movement, and why Tyler's Speak & Spell seemed to be stuck at Speak. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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