[Coco] Re: voxbox

[John R. Hogerhuis]

On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 09:27 +0000, Rodney V Hamilton wrote:
> In article <42354A54.69F9AF6F at Dittel.info>, 
> Torsten at Dittel.info wrote...
> >
> >Hi,
> >does anyone remember an RS device for early (non-CoCo) models called
> >"TRS-80 VOXBOX"? Looks like it's a speech recognition device. How did
> >that work in those times?
> >
> >Torsten
> 
> Actually, it was a speech GENERATOR, based on the VOTRAX SC-01.
> There was an article about programming it in Level II BASIC in
> the October 1979 issue of BYTE, pp.113-122.

Then why do pictures of it have a push-to-talk microphone and call it a
speech recognition unit?

Or maybe it's both?

-- John.