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Texas Instruments Grillo Parlante Piu'

Producer: Texas Instruments - Category: Other Hardware

Educational toy, 1980s, Texas Instruments. The Grillo Parlante Pił is the later Italian version of the Speak & Spell line, with the redesigned case of the mid-1980s models, a larger vocabulary and additional games. Like the first Grillo Parlante it pronounces words with a speech synthesizer chip and asks the child to spell them on the keyboard, showing the letters on the display.

Yearsmid 1980s
ChipTMS5100 series LPC speech synthesizer
Displayvacuum fluorescent or LCD display depending on the version
Inputalphabetic membrane keyboard
Powerbatteries or adapter

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