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...technology for talking cars comes off the Dallas drawing boards of Texas Instruments Inc., which has come up with a computer chip, costing less than $5 to manufacture, that synthesizes the human voice. So far, TI has used the chip only in its $60 talking learning aid for children, called Speak & Spell; the company has been marketing it with considerable success since last September. The red and yellow plastic device asks wide-eyed kids and fascinated adults to spell words as easy as was or as difficult as quotient by punching out the letters on a keyboard. It then responds...
...secretive about the way Speak & Spell works that competitors are buying the toy just to smash it and recover the chip. The Texas company has managed to put a fairly large vocabulary onto a computer chip at low cost. With that, synthetic speech becomes possible in many consumer products. Washing machines could gurgle when the suds get too high, and the refrigerator could snarl at the midnight raider. But what, the best brains in Detroit are wondering, will happen when a driver's eight-track quadraphonic recording of Disco Queen Donna Summer is interrupted by a disembodied voice warning...
...Magazine Industry of the 1980s--M.J. (chip) Block, Jr., president, Redwood Communications, Rm 24, Alken Computation...
...Crimson's best individual finisher was co-captain Jim Dales, who pieced together consecutive sub-80 rounds (78, 79) for a total of 157. Chip Raffi finished a shot back of Dales with 158. Raffi had the lowest round of any Harvard player when he uncorked a 77 on Friday after opening with an 81. Glenn Alexander, who played at number one for the linksters and who usually turns out sub-80 rounds with assembly-line regularity, carded rounds...
...poly fellow with a wristy swing, made up for his lack of length with an exquisite short game. On the 202-yd. par three 16th, Zito was 30 yards short of the green with a two-iron while Henley and Alexander both reached with four-irons. But Zito's chip hit the pin and lodged three inches from...