Ep. 8: TWiTH - TI introduces the Speak & Spell

Published: June 15, 2023, 6 a.m.

b'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.


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