Milestones:Speak & Spell, the First Use of a Digital Signal Processing IC for Speech Generation, 1978
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Speak & Spell, the First Use of a Digital Signal Processing IC for Speech Generation, 1978
In December 1976, Richard Wiggins demonstrated the Speak & Spell concept to Paul Breedlove, Larry Brantingham and Gene Frantz in Texas Instruments' Dallas research laboratory. This group led the team that created Speak & Spell in April 1978. The key device was the industry's first digital signal processing integrated processor, the TMS5100. This innovation in audio processing began the huge digital signal processing consumer market.
