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Producer: Texas Instruments - Category: Other Hardware
Educational toy, 1982, Texas Instruments. The Grillo Parlante is the Italian version of the Speak & Spell, the electronic spelling toy that TI introduced in 1978 as the first consumer product with a speech synthesizer chip. It pronounces a word with the synthetic voice and asks the child to spell it on the keyboard, showing the letters on a fluorescent display, and expansion modules add more words. The Italian version has an Italian vocabulary and the name of a cricket, recalling the talking cricket of Pinocchio.
| Years | 1982 to 1980s |
| Chip | TMS5100 series LPC speech synthesizer with TMS1000 microcontroller |
| Display | vacuum fluorescent display, 8 characters |
| Input | alphabetic membrane keyboard |
| Modules | plug-in vocabulary modules |
| Power | 4 C batteries or adapter |
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