I have a memory of a Spectrum game playing some sort of synthesised speech through the speaker that seemed incredibly ahead of its time. I believe the game was called iBall. And the sample said something like “Fight iBall!” Have I misremembered that? Was this a fever dream?
The 128k version of Nodes of Yesod had some speech, albeit I think it was just the name of the game. My older brother told me a kid in his class got paid big bucks - like, I dunno, £50 or something? - for coding it. Almost certainly bollocks.
For high quality speech, you could get the Currah μSpeech! <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currah#Currah_%CE%BCSpeech_for_the_ZX_Spectrum" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currah#Currah_%CE%BCSpeech_for...
I swear there was one symbol it pronounced "flea bleep".
For some reason "5", even if constructed as phonemes came out as "frame" - I always wondered why. I've never seen it mentioned in the various short pieces about it online including its contemporary reviews. I wonder now if it was a bug in the particular rom I had and it was fixed early enough to not get much visibility.
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For high quality speech, you could get the Currah μSpeech! <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currah#Currah_%CE%BCSpeech_for_the_ZX_Spectrum" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currah#Currah_%CE%BCSpeech_for...
I swear there was one symbol it pronounced "flea bleep".
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