Hardware Review: The Zebra Talker Speech Synthesizer

The Zebra Talker is an excellent choice for a speech synthesizer. It has very good sound for an under $100 dollar speech synthesizer, and is very easy to program. It has no software to operate it, because it comes with it’s own little eprom that just plugs into the port of the TS 1000/ZX81. With a speech synthesizer, you can add some reality to your programs (Quizzes could be spoken, not just printed on the screen!). I have found that a speech synthesizer shows off the Timex more than any other peripheral that I have. Everybody that I show it too is very startled that a computer is actually speaking to them. A speech synthesizer does show what the little TS 1000/ZX81 can do. I would recommend a speech synthesizer to everybody. Your kids will get a kick out of it, and so will you.