Emerging Interfaces
Perfect Paul II Gives the Apple II the Voice It Couldn't Afford in 1983
Home computers in the 1980s got the cheap SP0256 allophone chip and its strangled robot voice. DECtalk — the expensive, genuinely intelligible synthesizer later known as Stephen Hawking's voice — was never an option. Michael Wessel's Perfect Paul II puts a DECtalk emulator on an RP2040 behind an Apple II bus interface, addressable from BASIC.