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This is a very interesting idea that almost comes off. Load the demonstration tape, and your Spectrum speaks recognisable words.

It will read out numbers produced at random, call red alert, and so on, in response to data produced by a Basic program.

The second side of the tape allows you to set up words of your own, using a sound tape of the words, but this process is very difficult to carry through effectively.

The volume level of the recorded signal must be exactly right, and the actions involved need to be precisely timed. Perhaps with more time and patience, a better result might have been achieved.

The carefully-detailed instructions unfortunately contained some minor problems, such as an instruction to GOTO a non-existent line.

While that was not important in practice, there was a definite problem over the editor routine used to set up new words, in that after an error it was necessary to re-enter the editor. As a guess, the form RANDOMISE USER EDIT was tried, and it worked.

D.T.