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Actually not made by Sears - but many surprises in store for you in this traditional FranLab teardown of an amazing piece of history - a talking digital clock from 1980. How did they do that? Get ready, sit back, relax, and enjoy the ride!

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Sears Talking Machine From 1980

Actually not made by Sears - but many surprises in store for you in this traditional FranLab teardown of an amazing piece of history - a talking digital clock from 1980. How did they do that? Get ready, sit back, relax, and enjoy the ride! Join Team FranLab!!!! Become a patron and help support my YouTube Channel on Patreon - But please do not use the Apple Mobile App for Patreon, it charges a 30%! Always use a web browser to manage your Patreon Account, or an Android mobile device. Thanks! http://www.patreon.com/frantone #franlab #speech #synthesizer - Music by Fran Blanche - Fran's Science Blog - http://www.frantone.com/designwritings/design_writings.html FranArt Website - http://www.contourcorsets.com

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Charles Gage

Very cool. I recall buying a Speak-&-Spell for my niece from that era and was "amazed" that it talked! Voice on a chip! How easily we were amused. I wonder what the Sears Talking Machine retailed for back in the day? Probably not cheap. I just Googled the Speak & Spell. It's still made. Only $18.99 at Walmart. Now we have AI video that is hard to tell from the real thing. Great video! Thanks!

adrian

1980 wasn't the stone age ! We had microcontrollers and speaking pinball and everything!

Drewski Brewski

Cool exploration! If it were mine, I'd try re-capping the analog audio signal path to see if that would improve the speech clarity

Bob Pockney

For those who watch to the end... eleven eleven