SpeakJet (for the DIY people in here)

[Onkel Dunkel]

Take a look at this: http://www.speakjet.com/ It?s a robotic voice simulator chip that you can control from either its input pins or a RS232 port (for those of you not into computers: The serial port on your computer). There?s links to places you can buy the chip and RS-232 boards to mount it on and even software to make it "speak" I bet you could make some cool DIY projects with it

[Khazul]

Heh - that brings back memories - I used to mess around with speech chips years ago with a bbc micro

Probably end up like a circuit bent speak and spell

[Timo]

Some nice stuff there.

Instant R2D2!

[Threlly]

Somebody has actually produced a midi Speak-and-Spell, you can buy them as a kit or fully built.
Sounds freaky

[Onkel Dunkel]

Well the fun part here is that you can program it to say whatever you like