Editing TI BASIC (TI 99/4A) (section)

===Speech synthesis===
When equipped with the TI Speech Synthesizer, TI Extended BASIC users could also [[Speech synthesis|generate speech]] from a predefined vocabulary as easily as writing text on-screen.  For example, the following line of text would cause the speech synthesizer to identify the computer:{{sfn|Shaw|1983}}

  CALL SAY("HELLO I AM A #TEXAS INSTRUMENTS# T I NINETY NINE FOUR A HOME COMPUTER") 

Multi-word phrases are [[delimiter|delimited]] with the # symbol, as <code>#TEXAS INSTRUMENTS#</code> in this example. Using a word not included in the speech synthesizer's built-in vocabulary of 338 words and phrases would cause it to slowly spell out the word. TI's Terminal Emulator II cartridge provided [[text-to-speech]] functionality.{{sfn|Shaw|1983}}