The Speak & Spell was re-designed several times (the last time in 1992 for the Spanish market only), and Texas Instruments insists, “the basic learning principles and design concepts remain the standard for educational toys.” Woerner, Joerg. Texas Instruments La Super Dictée Magique. Datamath Calculator Museum. 16 March 2004

a b Woerner, Joerg. Texas Instruments Magic Reading Desk. Datamath Calculator Museum. 5 December 2001. Yet the Speak & Spell has become one of the most iconic pieces of education technology, referenced again and again in pop culture. The device appeared in Toy Story and Toy Story 2 and, most famously, in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. It was Texas Instruments engineer Paul Breedlove who reportedly came up with the idea of a learning aid for spelling. (Interestingly, one of the very first patents for educational devices was awarded in 1866: “an apparatus for teaching spelling.”) Breedlove’s idea was to build upon bubble memory, another TI research effort, and as such it involved an impressive technical challenge: the device should be able to speak the spelling word out loud. The Sonic Manipulator-The Spaceman-Sci Fi Sounds-Space Music-Musical Inventions". Sonicmanipulator.com. 28 February 2005 . Retrieved 13 August 2012. Morley, Paul (7 November 1981). "Depeche Mode: Speak & Spell". New Musical Express. London. ISSN 0028-6362.Typically the history of the Speak & Spell isn’t traced through B. F. Skinner’s teaching machines but through the calculator. (That being said, Skinner had made significant in-roads into both the engineering crowd and the popular consciousness in the 1950s and 1960s with his teaching machines.)

Guld- och Platinacertifikat − År 1987−1998" (PDF) (in Swedish). IFPI Sweden. 21 January 1991. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 May 2011. The version of New Life on the first editions of the USA editions of the album are the "Remix", and not the standard "Album Version" that is found on the original UK Mute pressing. The version of Just Can't Get Enough on the first editions of the USA editions of album are the "Schizo Mix", and not the "Album Version" that is found on the original UK Mute pressing. Speak & Spell introduced – first commercial use of DSP technology. Texas Instruments. Retrieved 17 December 2008. Speak & Spell Online – a Flash-based web application with partial functionality created by Jake Smith in 2002 [52] Memory – A Super Speak & Spell game in which letter recognition and visual memory skills are tested. [27]Several commercial retailers offered hardware and software which allowed home computers to interface with the Speak & Spell's hardware and access its capabilities, and Larry Dighera was first to reveal how that might be accomplished. [48] a b Woerner, Joerg. Texas Instruments Ready..Set...Read!. Datamath Calculator Museum. 15 December 2001. Speak & Learn Magic Wand – A work-booklet-based electronic game featuring the use of infra-red barcode reader technology. [101]