{"id":3822,"date":"2008-12-29T02:54:46","date_gmt":"2008-12-29T02:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/12\/29\/speak-and-spell\/"},"modified":"2011-05-17T19:09:58","modified_gmt":"2011-05-17T18:09:58","slug":"speak-and-spell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/12\/29\/speak-and-spell\/","title":{"rendered":"Speak &#038; Spell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kevinstonge.com\/files\/speakandspell.swf\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/sas.jpg\" alt=\"sas.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Before speech synthesis became a standard feature of home computing there was this crude device for teaching children spelling, now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kevinstonge.com\/files\/speakandspell.swf\" target=\"_blank\">emulated in Flash<\/a> by Kevin St. Onge. Anyone who&#8217;s heard Kraftwerk&#8217;s later music will recognise the tones generated by the top row of buttons which Ralf and Florian used on the track <em>Home Computer<\/em> for the <em>Computer World<\/em> album. Speak &amp; Spell voices turned up on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Speak_%26_Spell_(toy)#In_commercial_music\" target=\"_blank\">many recordings<\/a> throughout the Eighties and Nineties. Fun as this emulator is I&#8217;d much prefer an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vintagesynth.com\/misc\/vcs3.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">EMS VCS3<\/a> to play with.<\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/10\/06\/old-music-and-old-technology\/\">Old music and old technology<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/07\/10\/a-clockwork-orange-the-complete-original-score\/\">A Clockwork Orange: The Complete Original Score<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/09\/28\/aerodynamik-by-kraftwerk\/\">Aerodynamik by Kraftwerk<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/03\/04\/the-genius-of-kraftwerk\/\">The genius of Kraftwerk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before speech synthesis became a standard feature of home computing there was this crude device for teaching children spelling, now emulated in Flash by Kevin St. Onge. Anyone who&#8217;s heard Kraftwerk&#8217;s later music will recognise the tones generated by the top row of buttons which Ralf and Florian used on the track Home Computer for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/12\/29\/speak-and-spell\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Speak &#038; Spell&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[29,3,15],"tags":[170,122,108],"class_list":["post-3822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronica","category-music","category-technology","tag-a-clockwork-orange","tag-kraftwerk","tag-web-toys"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-ZE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}