Comments on: [ Retro Scan of the Week ] The Voice — Odyssey 2 Speech Synthesizer http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/385 The Retrogaming and Retrocomputing Blogazine Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:02:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 Comment on [ Retro Scan of the Week ] The Voice — Odyssey 2 Speech Synthesizer by: Angel B. http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/385#comment-20051 Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:01:55 +0000 http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/385#comment-20051 Haha! Good times, guys! I actually still have the system with The Voice and a few games. It has a box but its pretty beat. Have not used it since I was a kid so I'm not sure if she works properly or not. I'm going to have to dig it out and have a whirl! But I always favored my Vectrex ;) Haha! Good times, guys! I actually still have the system with The Voice and a few games. It has a box but its pretty beat. Have not used it since I was a kid so I'm not sure if she works properly or not. I'm going to have to dig it out and have a whirl! But I always favored my Vectrex ;)

]]> Comment on [ Retro Scan of the Week ] The Voice — Odyssey 2 Speech Synthesizer by: Benj Edwards http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/385#comment-14528 Tue, 06 Nov 2007 15:02:40 +0000 http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/385#comment-14528 Great story, Nick. When I was a kid, we had a voice synthesizer program for the Atari 800 called "S.A.M." It was an absolute blast to make it say both gibberish and curse words. My brother's favorite thing to make it say was "Plop, plop, fizz, fizz, oh what a relief it is" from an Alka-Seltzer commercial. I still have that computer's voice stuck in my head to this day. Great story, Nick. When I was a kid, we had a voice synthesizer program for the Atari 800 called "S.A.M." It was an absolute blast to make it say both gibberish and curse words. My brother's favorite thing to make it say was "Plop, plop, fizz, fizz, oh what a relief it is" from an Alka-Seltzer commercial. I still have that computer's voice stuck in my head to this day.

]]> Comment on [ Retro Scan of the Week ] The Voice — Odyssey 2 Speech Synthesizer by: Nick http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/385#comment-14526 Mon, 05 Nov 2007 19:37:29 +0000 http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/385#comment-14526 I've got one of these - I grew up with it, as my parents purchased an Odyssey 2, Voice, and most of the US released games (no Power Lords, sadly, but all three big-box games) on clearance before I was even born. The Voice is a real blast; there's a cart called (if I recall correctly) Type & Tell that does nothing but allow you to type in words that the Voice then reads aloud. This was fun when I was five years old, and it said things like "dog" or random keyboard mashings like "IAUSDHOQWSOIDJ." And of course, it got to be more and more fun over time as I learned various more grown-up words that I compelled the poor robot voice to recite at full volume in the living room. :D I've got one of these - I grew up with it, as my parents purchased an Odyssey 2, Voice, and most of the US released games (no Power Lords, sadly, but all three big-box games) on clearance before I was even born.

The Voice is a real blast; there's a cart called (if I recall correctly) Type & Tell that does nothing but allow you to type in words that the Voice then reads aloud. This was fun when I was five years old, and it said things like "dog" or random keyboard mashings like "IAUSDHOQWSOIDJ." And of course, it got to be more and more fun over time as I learned various more grown-up words that I compelled the poor robot voice to recite at full volume in the living room. :D

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