This is a Commodore 64 computer with a Magic Voice cartridge installed. The program runs-through every inbuilt phrase at each of the available speeds (1: fastest ... 10: slowest). Each iteration starts with the speed being said first (at speed 5), then each of the 235 phrases in its inbuilt vocabulary.
The Magic Voice cartridge is based on the Toshiba T6721A chip, which appears to be a kind-of fourier-transform sound decoder. As such, it gives much better and more recognisable speech than the common Software Automatic Mouth (SAM) speech synthesis system, but is less versatile due to the word-based design. SAM is phoneme-based, thus more versatile (Even though the automatic word-&gt;phoneme conversions are understandably dodgey).
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The least restrictive license SoundCloud permits is CC (Attribution). Personally I don't care about the attribution and I explicitly allow, support and encourage re-use of this sample in any way you see fit (e.g. excerpting segments and re-mixing into other works is just hunky-dory by me).
<h3>Word List</h3>
0	ZERO
1	ONE
2	TWO
3	THREE
4	FOUR
5	FIVE
6	SIX
7	SEVEN
8	EIGHT
9	NINE
10	TEN
11	ELEVEN
12	TWELVE
13	THIR
14	FIF
15	TWENTY
16	HUNDRED
17	THOUSAND
18	MILLION
19	TEEN
20	TY
21	A
22	B
23	C
24	D
25	E
26	F
27	G
28	H
29	I
30	J
31	K
32	L
33	M
34	N
35	O
36	P
37	Q
38	R
39	S
40	T
41	U
42	V
43	W
44	X
45	Y
46	Z
47	(SILENCE)
48	ADD
49	SUBTRACT
50	DIVIDE
51	DIVIDED
52	EQUALS
53	LESS
54	MINUS
55	MORE
56	NUMBER
57	PLUS
58	REMAINDER
59	IT
60	AT
61	WHEN
62	HAS
63	TIMES
64	APOSTROPHE
65	WORD
66	ER
67	EST
68	ING
69	SSSS
70	TH
71	ALL
72	ME
73	MY
74	THAT
75	THEIR
76	THEY'RE
77	THIS
78	WHAT
79	WHICH
80	WHO
81	YOUR
82	YOU'RE
83	ANSWER
84	COMMODORE
85	END
86	POINT
87	THING
88	QUESTION
89	TURN
90	AM
91	ARE
92	BE
93	BUY
94	CAN
95	CORRECT
96	DID
97	DO
98	DOES
99	DONE
100	FIND
101	GET
102	HAVE
103	HEAR
104	HELP
105	IS
106	KNOW
107	LIKE
108	PRESENTS
109	READ
110	SAY
111	SEE
112	START
113	USE
114	WAIT
115	WANT
116	WAS
117	WON
118	WRITE
119	HERE
120	HIGH
121	HOW
122	THERE
123	TOO
124	WHERE
125	WHY
126	UH
127	AN
128	AND
129	AS
130	BUT
131	BY
132	FOR
133	FROM
134	IF
135	IN
136	LARGE
137	NEXT
138	NOT
129	OF
140	OFF
141	OH
142	ON
143	OR
144	READY
145	SAME
146	THAN
147	THE
148	THUH
149	THEN
150	TO
151	WITH
152	VERY
153	BYTE
154	HI
155	PLEASE
156	THANK
157	YES
158	BAD
159	GOOD
160	SORRY
161	WRONG
162	AFTER
163	MOST
164	BECAUSE
165	NO
166	OUT
167	SEND
168	TALK
169	ANY
170	EACH
171	ENTER
172	ERROR
173	MANY
174	EVERY
175	AGAIN
176	NOW
177	SMALL
178	TERRIFIC
179	TRY
180	LETTER
181	FIRST
182	SECOND
183	THIRD
184	COLOR
185	BLACK
186	WHITE
187	RED
188	CYAN
189	PURPLE
190	GREEN
191	BLUE
192	YELLOW
193	ORANGE
194	BROWN
195	GREY
196	LIGHT
197	HE
198	OUR
199	SHE
200	WE
201	YOU
202	COME
203	GIVE
204	PUT
205	SET
206	TAKE
207	WERE
208	UNTIL
209	MAY
210	OVER
211	DARK
212	COMMAND
213	COMPUTER
214	CONTROL
215	CURSOR
216	DISK
217	DOWN
218	GAME
219	KEY
220	LEFT
221	LOAD
222	NAME
223	PLAY
224	PRESS
225	PROGRAM
226	RIGHT
227	RUN
228	SAVE
229	STOP
230	SYMBOL
231	TAPE
232	UP
233	WEIGHT
234	HOUR



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