Tomorrow's Electronic Breakthroughs

July, 1981

It often requires little more than a visit to your favorite hi-fi store to discover that electronic technology has advanced ahead of you while you weren't looking. Hardly a week goes by without some new future-shock gadget reaching the shops. To help you stay several strokes ahead of the personal-electronics tidal wave, here is a preview of some of the technologies and products to watch for through the Eighties.Electronic SpeechOne research effort, speech synthesis, seeks to create human words a...