Speak & Spell
Description
Speak & Spell is an educational handheld device which allows children to play games that teach spelling and pronunciation. It's the first low-cost mass-produced consumer electronics using synthesized speech. Aside from speaking the words there's also a display that can display their spelling. The basic device comes with various activities to learn pronunciation and spelling and has one game "Mystery Word". Mystery Word is a Hangman-style word guessing game in which the game is over after seven wrong letters guessed. The clue key can be used to get a free letter.
The device comes with a word list of about 200 words and is expandable with new word lists of which multiple were released over the years:
- Vowel Power
- Super Stumpers 4-6
- Super Stumpers 7-8
- Basic Builders
- Mighty Verbs
- Vowel Power (UK spelling)
- Mighty Verbs (UK spelling)
- Homonum Heroes
- Noun Endings
- Magnificent Modifiers
- Vowel Ventures
- E.T. Fantasy Module
- Les Mots de Base Module No 1 (French)
- Les Mots de Base Module No 2 (French)
- Les Animaux Familiers Module No 3 (French)
- Les Magasins de la Rue Module No 4 (French)
- Les Extra-Terrestres Module No 5 (French)
- SuperModulo (Italian)
