Word: speller
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...There is not another organ like it in the world,' said Frank Speller. Texas associate professor of music and organist at the concerts...
...Rather that was Houston, at least for a while. A part-time stint at the Houston Chronicle reminded him that he was a poor speller; when a better paying broadcasting job beckoned, he jumped. Once on the air, he managed to mispronounce words like heroin (her-oyne), variable (var'ble) and miniature (minichoor). Radio station KTRH gave him time to improve, and while there, he met his future wife, Jean Goebel, who also worked for the station, as a secretary. In 1960 Rather joined KHOU-TV, the CBS affiliate in Houston, and a short time later literally reaped...
...four-note tune when a child (or wondering adult) presses the On button. Then, when the Go button is pressed, the machine says, in a deep, pleasant, male voice, "Spell wash." The child presses W, and the machine pronounces the name of the letter: "Double-you." When the speller finishes punching the letter buttons, he presses Enter, and the machine says, "That is correct. Now spell extra." Or, if the speller has made a mistake, the machine says, "Wrong. Try again." The sentences are lifelike, and the pitch of the voice rises and falls in a normal way. Two wrong...
...considerable when the pleasant mechanical voice pronounces "Eff, You, See ...") Speak & Spell, which sells for $64.95, was dreamed up by a Texas Instruments products engineer named Paul Breedlove, who had worked in voice synthesis and thought that the concept might be used in a small teaching machine. The speller appeared on the market a year ago, and the only limit to sales now is, ironically, TI's inability to produce chips fast enough...
...earnest bad speller asks in writing: "How do you preform and octopsy...