Technically Speaking
July, 1982
If you're suddenly hearing voices, it may not be your imagination. Products that talk are proliferating faster than you can say "Digital synthesizer"; and, no, they don't sound like Sessue Hayakawa in Bridge on the River Kwai. Vowel chips that reproduce speech from its components are the secret technology that makes for much more natural-sounding voices. Once you've gotten over the novelty of mechanical back talk, you'll find that having, say, a calculator that verbally double checks y...
