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The TI Speech Synthesizer plugged into the TI-99/4A plugged into the expansion port on the right side of the computer.  The Speech Synthesizer used the TMS5110/5220 series of speech chips that were used in the first wave of commercial voice synthesizers in the late 70's and early 80's. In an application, they allow speech data to be stored in a highly compressed format, which was very important in the days when ROM space was expensive.  The same series of chips were used in the Speak ' n Spell educational toy and the Gauntlet and Star Wars arcade games.

Title	Released	Platforms
Alpiner	1982	TI-99/4A
Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom	1982	PC Booter, Commodore 64, Atari 2600...
M*A*S*H	1983	Atari 2600, Atari 8-bit, TI-99/4A
Microsurgeon	1982	PC Booter, Intellivision, TI-99/4A
Moon Mine	1984	TI-99/4A
Numeration 1: Under the Big Top	1983	Apple II, TI-99/4A
Numeration 2: At The Carnival	1983	TI-99/4A
Parsec	1982	TI-99/4A
Pulsar	1983	TI-99/4A
Star Trek: Strategic Operations Simulator	1982	DOS, Commodore 64, Atari 2600...
The Secret Agent	1984	TI-99/4A