Chatterbox Voice Synthesizer Kit

Listed at $49.95 in the 1986 ADAM Resource Directory hardware guide under "VOICE SYNTHESIZER": "Complete kit to make your ADAM talk. Features natural speech & unlimited vocabulary. Requires a moderate level of construction skill to complete. (32-page manual available separate for $9.95)."

That the 32-page manual was a separate $9.95 purchase is a detail worth carrying, since a manual-less kit is what most surviving examples will be. A.A.L. Computing was at PO Box 8006, Laguna Hills, CA 92654, and the retailers section describes the line as "Hardware, low cost voice synthesizer."

Speech competitors in the same directory: the Eve SS-CC at $109.95, Marathon Computer Press Super Talk at $59.95 as a kit or $99.95 assembled, and the Orphanware Talker.