{"id":385,"date":"2007-11-05T06:00:51","date_gmt":"2007-11-05T11:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/385"},"modified":"2007-11-05T10:46:48","modified_gmt":"2007-11-05T15:46:48","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-the-odyssey-2-voice-synthesizer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/385\/retro-scan-of-the-week-the-odyssey-2-voice-synthesizer","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> The Voice &#8212; Odyssey 2 Speech Synthesizer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/odyssey_voice_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/odyssey_voice_small.jpg\" alt=\"Odyssey 2 Voice Flier\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I acquired this slick brochure promoting &#8220;The Voice&#8221; some years ago when I bought a nice collection of Odyssey 2 stuff.  The Voice add-on unit apparently added speech synthesizer capabilities (and enhanced sound effects, according to the flier) to Magnavox&#8217;s Odyssey 2 console.  I don&#8217;t own a &#8220;The Voice,&#8221; but I&#8217;ve always wanted one.  They&#8217;re very rare, so if anybody has one they don&#8217;t want anymore, let me know.<\/p>\n<p>Did anyone out there have one of these units?<\/p>\n<p><small><em>If you use this image on your site, please support &#8220;Retro Scan of the Week&#8221; by giving us obvious credit for the original scan and entry.  Thanks.<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I acquired this slick brochure promoting &#8220;The Voice&#8221; some years ago when I bought a nice collection of Odyssey 2 stuff. The Voice add-on unit apparently added speech synthesizer capabilities (and enhanced sound effects, according to the flier) to Magnavox&#8217;s Odyssey 2 console. I don&#8217;t own a &#8220;The Voice,&#8221; but I&#8217;ve always wanted one. They&#8217;re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,13,26,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-game-design","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-retrogaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}