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Re:Digital Audio on the ZX Spectrum's 1-Bit Beeper by darrenf on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @01:04PM (#49896544)
The 128k version of Nodes of Yesod had some speech, albeit I think it was just the name of the game. My older brother told me a kid in his class got paid big bucks - like, I dunno, £50 or something? - for coding it. Almost certainly bollocks.

For high quality speech, you could get the Currah μSpeech! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currah#Currah_%CE%BCSpeech_for...

I swear there was one symbol it pronounced "flea bleep".

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Re:Digital Audio on the ZX Spectrum's 1-Bit Beeper by dcminter on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @03:55PM (#49899404)
For some reason "5", even if constructed as phonemes came out as "frame" - I always wondered why. I've never seen it mentioned in the various short pieces about it online including its contemporary reviews. I wonder now if it was a bug in the particular rom I had and it was fixed early enough to not get much visibility.
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