Microcomputer Peripheral, Texas Instruments Speech System
date: label: date made
content: c 1985
name: label: maker
content: Texas Instruments
notes: label: Description
content: This package is for a TI Professional Computer or an IBM personal computer. It was designed to allow users to give verbal instructions to these computers. It also offered standard dictation machine capabilities with digital storage of voice.
label: Description
content: The system includes two piggybacked circuit boards that mount to a single slot, a microphone, a speaker, a telephone cable and assorted hardware. Software and documentation include 3 floppy disks entitled "TI-Speech." One is a "Vocabulary Manager and Programming Guide Software," one is "Phone Manager," and the third has "VEocabulary Manager" and "Tutorial Diskette #1." All of these materials are in a white cardboard box.
label: Description
content: Further material that is part of the system but stored separately includes:
label: Description
content: a manual entitled "TI-Speech Installation Guide"
label: Description
content: nine diskettes in a box entitled "Speech Link Access to Lotus 1-2-3"
label: Description
content: a boxed binder containing software (8 floppy discs) and documentation and entitled "TI-Speech Library."
label: Description
content: a larger brown binder with the "TI-Speech Application Toolkit Guide."
label: Description
content: an advertisement entitled "New TMS320: Advanced architecture outstanding flexibility, speed."
label: Description
content: a 1983 news clipping describing the system
label: Description
content: 2 cords
label: Description
content: 1 multicolored ribbon cable
label: Description
content: 1 gray ribbon cable
label: Description
content: 1 gray ribbon connector.
label: Description
content: The materials, along with the rest of the accession and acquisition 2010.3016, are a gift of James White Glenn (born 1936). Born in South Dakota, Glenn received an undergraduate degree in mathematics from the University of Colorado and then an MS (also in math) from Catholic University – the latter in 1965. He soon was working for Scope Electronics, Inc. in Reston, Virginia where he participated in DARPA-funded studies on the use of voice in controlling and learning the state of helicopters. By the 1980s Glenn had his own consulting firm, Glenn Associates (also in Virginia) and had established the magazine Speech Technology – which continues to this day, though not under his leadership. He also wrote general accounts of voice recognition in the period.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: James Glenn
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2010.0054.01
label: accession number
content: 2010.0054
label: catalog number
content: 2010.0054.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microcomputer peripheral
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 16 cm x 70 cm x 30 cm; 6 5/16 in x 27 9/16 in x 11 13/16 in
label: Measurements
content: white box: 15 cm x 45 cm x 21 cm; 5 7/8 in x 17 11/16 in x 8 1/4 in
label: Measurements
content: documents & software: 16 cm x 27.4 cm x 30 cm; 6 5/16 in x 10 13/16 in x 11 13/16 in