French Speak And Spell

Someone left this in the laundry room of my building. La Dictee Magique!!

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Entertainment

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• French
• Speak&Spell

[SupositoryRepository]

Jesus, even a French speaking toy is pretentious and rude .

[KerChoo]

Your laugh is adorable.

[OBSysteme]

@jeopardy60611 Texas instruments had a considerable international presence I think. For example, In Canada they use to offer bilingual merchendise for their Ti99/a4 computer.

Also, TI had some kind of a head office located in France itself, and some of their computer sold very well there.

[Sharptooth100]

I would not learn French because I do not read French. I preffer to learn German.

[QUIZFILTER]

@shannonfburns Even your video description line is funnies: "Someone left this in the laundry room of my building. La Dictee Magique!!" HAHAHA

[QUIZFILTER]

@shannonfburns I already had the same reaction as you when you lightly giggle after it talks, but then when you laugh it makes me laugh even more!! This is such silly non-sense! Why is it so funny-good?

[ptitpraince]

@SupositoryRepository stereotype...

[jeopardy60611]

@JakeyJake95 The biological term "ventral" which refers to the front of the human body must come from "ventre" or its Latin equivalent.

[jeopardy60611]

@themaritimeman So it was probably a very primitive form of digital sampling with a very low sampling rate. Computers of the day could not reproduce CD-quality audio with 44K sampling, so a digital recording would come out the way it did on a Speak & Spell. I remember a game called Robot Attack (a Berzerk clone) for the TRS-80 Model I that had crude sampled speech that sounded quite raspy.

[themaritimeman]

@jeopardy60611 How the American-developed speech synthesizer is able to perfectly pronounce the French is because they hired a professional speaker and recorded him speaking the 150 words and other phrases the toy says, then digitized it and translated it into the digital data the synthesizer reads to speak.

[jeopardy60611]

I had 2 years of high school French, so I find it interesting that they made a French version of Speak 'n' Spell.  I had the American English one when I was a kid. It's cool how the computerized speech does the French accent so perfectly!