Ep. 8: TWiTH - TI introduces the Speak & Spell
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English - June 15, 2023 06:00 - 23 minutes - 33.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsTechnology Business Careers software software development engineering technology tech programming cto developer freelance Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Ep. 7: Rosalie van der Maas, CEO and Co-founder of Ellipsis Drive
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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