How Speech Synthesis Made this '80s Toy Affordable

Let's take a look at the Talking Computron, an educational "pre-computer" toy sold by Sears in the 1980s. This is interesting for a few different reasons, but the use of speech synthesis as a cost-saving measure is particularly intriguing.

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