The MEA8000 is a Speech Synthesizer chip. It is a French equivalent to the SPO256 speech chip.
To hear what the MEA8000 chip is capable of go [here]].
With some clever programming it is possible to program a software Speech Synthesizer with good results.
Speech Synthesizer technology was also used in some games, with different quality.
Hardware Speech Synthesisers
Amstrad SSA-1 Speech Synthesizer (SPO256 based)
Dk'tronics Speech Synthesizer (SPO256 based)
TMPI speech synthetizer (MEA8000 based)
Software Speech synthesisers
Speech (Symbos software)
Games using Speech Synthesizer
Datasheet (English)
Datasheet MEA8000 (PDF)
Weblinks
[[1]] (French)