Re: Ensoniq capabilities

[Steve Nickolas <usotsuki@buric.co>]

On Wed, 13 Feb 2013, Steven Weyhrich wrote:

> My Apple II History states that the Ensoniq chip is capable of speech 
> synthesis. However, when I was questioned about this, I was unable to 
> come up with any examples when that was actually used. Some other sound 
> hardware released in the 1980s allowed use of phonemes to create speech, 
> but I am not aware of any simple speech abilities in the IIGS.
>
> Does anyone know of whether the IIGS could do speech with the Ensoniq, 
> or was my source (wherever it was) incorrect about that?

I remember some sort of word processor, I think its title started with 
"kid", that had voice synthesis capabilities.

-uso.