3:58 That cadence of the chime followed by the "Greater Than or Less Than, Level 1" chant has been stuck indelibly in my brain since childhood, and pops in there randomly every now and again. Just did, actually, which is why I searched for this video. The demo song from my Yamaha keyboard has the same effect.
yours too? mine was always the number stumper intro, which I always thought was fun to play over and over until it drove Mom crazy and she finally had to tell me to stop. Then after I listened to her play that very game, and she later taught me how to play it myself, it became one of my favorites.
There's a story behind the "greater than less than" sample from TI employee Nick Hulbert "We had recorded and digitized all of the speech words and phrases that would be used in the Speak & Math and working the late shift getting ready for a demonstration the next morning. There were three of us working the final digitized "tweaking" when we realized that one of the phrases was missing from the collection. The phrase was " is greater than or less than". TI was using the professional voice of a radio announcer out of the Dallas area and we were in Lubbock. We knew that we couldn't load the Speak & Math simulator ( no actual unit yet) without the full collection as each word and phrase had a unique address. So we quickly fired up the sound room and recorded and digitized that phrase using the lowest frequency voice of the three of us. We added it to the simulator thinking it would suffice for the demonstration and we could capture the actual voice at a later date. It turns out that the next day while we were sleeping, the demonstration was conducted, the quality control group evaluated the words and approved the voice library. Our co worker Doug Wickey ended up being the voice for the Speak & Math for that one phrase "is greater than or less than". If you have a unit try playing that game and you'll definitely notice a different voice for that one phrase. Don't know how the quality folks missed it but then no one ever complained. Strange that they didn't notice and I hear the difference as plain as day. Doug's voice is not as deep and his diction is much different."
I got emotional when i heard em start it up and it played that opening tune. I had this EXACT SAME ONE. i was about 3 or 4 years old mashing buttons. I havent seen it since, till today. I got all misty eyes like a wuss. I remember it sounding low and scarey when the battery was low, then to high pitch crackling sounds when the batter is damn near dead. Eventually the screen broke and when i played it the sound worked but i get all kinds of weird shapes on the screen. It looked like predator numbers. i thought id look it up, but i wasnt ready to hear the sounds. I forgot about it and when it sounded off, i went back, waay back. Thank you for a trip down memory lane and reminding me of how old i am. If anyone bother to read this and you are real young. My message is to you. Cherish your time as a child, cause in a flash youll be like me. This is awesome. This video made my fuckin day.
Oh my goodness, I had this as a kid in Australia and it was one of my favourite things ever!!! Hearing that voice is a real blast from the past!!! And yes, agreed, amazing that you found this in such good condition. Wish I still had mine - even just for the nostalgia! Thanks for posting!
I used to have this. It drove my Dad crazy when I would put word problems on level 3 in the car and he would have to answer all the questions that I didn't understand.
Had this as a kid. Forgot what it was called. Searched "solve it level 1" and wound up here haha. Now I made a math app my kid uses to learn. Maybe I can find one of these old clunkers for him to use. Loved mine as a kid.
I had one of these for years that I got for Christmas when I was about 5 or 6, that I kept into my adulthood. I wanted to pass it down to my own daughter, along with my Speak N Spell, but found that when I put batteries in them to test them out, they unfortunately both stopped working, which was really disappointing.
My favorite game was Number Stumper. That was so fun as a kid. I always would say the "Level 1" sounded a little like "level way", but I guess that's just me.
As a huge deadmau5 fan and someone who owned this toy, I NEVER noticed that. I was thinking about how this sounds like a lot of his vocal samples like in sometimes things get whatever, and was thinking I might one day sample this toy myself but apparently it's been done! Cool info!
Wow. I can't believe it started with "one million, one hundred eleven thousand, one hundred eleven and one tenth." That was probably my favorite thing I heard it say and it does hop into my head from time to time.
I could have sworn I had this but it was red. Im 99% sure it wasn’t the speak and spell. However I can’t find anything online about. Maybe I jumped timelines.
Thanks for the video!!! 9x8=72 and 9*9=81. I grew up with this thing (not sure what else to call it lol) and honestly I think it helped me nail the times tables and the greater than/less than concept at 9, 10 or 11 yrs old.
Or another for 3+1… let’s say there were 3 cars up for sale at an auction, and someone drove in one more car to the auction, how many cars would be up for auction? 4 duh
New Button! Exponential Level! And also Included the "^" Sign. The Levels: 1: The ^0 and ^1 Problems. 2: Squared Math, 3: Cubed Math. 4: ^4 to ^10. 5: ^11 to ^1,024, new Button which is helpful, the e and π! π is 3.1415192653589... And e is 2.718..., and also the button " x × 10^x" and "10^x" and the button "√" Which is Square Root. The Levels: 1: The Oneth Root, And Square Root. 2: Cube Root, 4th to 5th Root, 3: 6th to 10th roots. (FAKE)
i got this for xmas in 1986. and still have it. i love this.
I'm gonna tell my kids this was Stephen Hawking
Uhhh this is bringing me back to my childhood!!!
3:58 That cadence of the chime followed by the "Greater Than or Less Than, Level 1" chant has been stuck indelibly in my brain since childhood, and pops in there randomly every now and again. Just did, actually, which is why I searched for this video. The demo song from my Yamaha keyboard has the same effect.
100%
That was my first replay button as a kid. My cousin had a Speak n Math and I would press that button like 20 times before actually playing it.
yours too? mine was always the number stumper intro, which I always thought was fun to play over and over until it drove Mom crazy and she finally had to tell me to stop. Then after I listened to her play that very game, and she later taught me how to play it myself, it became one of my favorites.
@@jessicamoss5870 That's hilarious. Yeah, I absolutely loved that machine.
There's a story behind the "greater than less than" sample from TI employee Nick Hulbert "We had recorded and digitized all of the speech words and phrases that would be used in the Speak & Math and working the late shift getting ready for a demonstration the next morning. There were three of us working the final digitized "tweaking" when we realized that one of the phrases was missing from the collection. The phrase was " is greater than or less than". TI was using the professional voice of a radio announcer out of the Dallas area and we were in Lubbock. We knew that we couldn't load the Speak & Math simulator ( no actual unit yet) without the full collection as each word and phrase had a unique address. So we quickly fired up the sound room and recorded and digitized that phrase using the lowest frequency voice of the three of us. We added it to the simulator thinking it would suffice for the demonstration and we could capture the actual voice at a later date. It turns out that the next day while we were sleeping, the demonstration was conducted, the quality control group evaluated the words and approved the voice library. Our co worker Doug Wickey ended up being the voice for the Speak & Math for that one phrase "is greater than or less than". If you have a unit try playing that game and you'll definitely notice a different voice for that one phrase. Don't know how the quality folks missed it but then no one ever complained. Strange that they didn't notice and I hear the difference as plain as day. Doug's voice is not as deep and his diction is much different."
I got emotional when i heard em start it up and it played that opening tune. I had this EXACT SAME ONE. i was about 3 or 4 years old mashing buttons. I havent seen it since, till today. I got all misty eyes like a wuss. I remember it sounding low and scarey when the battery was low, then to high pitch crackling sounds when the batter is damn near dead. Eventually the screen broke and when i played it the sound worked but i get all kinds of weird shapes on the screen. It looked like predator numbers. i thought id look it up, but i wasnt ready to hear the sounds. I forgot about it and when it sounded off, i went back, waay back. Thank you for a trip down memory lane and reminding me of how old i am. If anyone bother to read this and you are real young. My message is to you. Cherish your time as a child, cause in a flash youll be like me. This is awesome. This video made my fuckin day.
I LOVED my Speak and Math...I'm 44 this month and still love the sounds this thing made
The start up music AND the way it says "quotient"
Oh my goodness, I had this as a kid in Australia and it was one of my favourite things ever!!! Hearing that voice is a real blast from the past!!! And yes, agreed, amazing that you found this in such good condition. Wish I still had mine - even just for the nostalgia! Thanks for posting!
"Number Stumper, le'vel one, le'vel two.."
7:45 Quite simply the best electronic sound followed by “You’ve got my number your score is.. 4”
You were lucky to find one is such good condition. It looks brand new.
Ugh I had this as a kid…I loved this machine. Now I want one again
Ahh nostalgia I remember this well
Wow!! Bringing back Major memories of my childhood. These sounds are burned into my head!
I used to have this. It drove my Dad crazy when I would put word problems on level 3 in the car and he would have to answer all the questions that I didn't understand.
"What is the perimeter?"
Had this as a kid. Forgot what it was called. Searched "solve it level 1" and wound up here haha. Now I made a math app my kid uses to learn. Maybe I can find one of these old clunkers for him to use. Loved mine as a kid.
THATS INCORRECT!
I had one of these for years that I got for Christmas when I was about 5 or 6, that I kept into my adulthood. I wanted to pass it down to my own daughter, along with my Speak N Spell, but found that when I put batteries in them to test them out, they unfortunately both stopped working, which was really disappointing.
I had one as a child and I seriously want one 😍
My favorite game was Number Stumper. That was so fun as a kid. I always would say the "Level 1" sounded a little like "level way", but I guess that's just me.
Now I know why as an 8 year old I rarely ever used this. I was way too math impaired for anything beyond the adding subtracting and multiplication
Fun fact: deadmau5 used this instrument for some vocals in his song called “deadmau5 - Maths” at 0:30, but it’s kinda hard to hear
As a huge deadmau5 fan and someone who owned this toy, I NEVER noticed that. I was thinking about how this sounds like a lot of his vocal samples like in sometimes things get whatever, and was thinking I might one day sample this toy myself but apparently it's been done! Cool info!
Wow. I can't believe it started with "one million, one hundred eleven thousand, one hundred eleven and one tenth." That was probably my favorite thing I heard it say and it does hop into my head from time to time.
Funny how they made a different panel for the UK that says 'maths' as opposed to 'math'
We always use the plural to describe math in the UK. So makes sense to have different world editions.
If you press the buttons all at once it temporarily screws it up
Fyi 9x9 is 81 not 89
i always thought the dude in the machine sounded angry as the batteries lessened :D
I still have mine!!! Ahhh this takes me back to childhood oh my goodness
I still have mine too. Solve it level 1 lol
@@olschoolTonyCarter "...level 2, level thaa'ree!"
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Whether your parents got you this of the Speak & Spell determined if you became a shape rotator or a wordcel.
9 * 9 = 81, not 89 ;)
43 x 3 = 129
I could have sworn I had this but it was red. Im 99% sure it wasn’t the speak and spell.
However I can’t find anything online about. Maybe I jumped timelines.
My brother had this😩😩😩 Time flies.
Thanks for the video!!! 9x8=72 and 9*9=81. I grew up with this thing (not sure what else to call it lol) and honestly I think it helped me nail the times tables and the greater than/less than concept at 9, 10 or 11 yrs old.
3:59...FTW.
I had both this and the speak and spell
Solve it level one
You done have to turn it off on neck on again to switch games. At least mine didn't need to...
Or another for 3+1… let’s say there were 3 cars up for sale at an auction, and someone drove in one more car to the auction, how many cars would be up for auction? 4 duh
Another way to look at 6+2… suppose someone had 6 bananas and another friend gave that person 2 more bananas, how many bananas would he have? 8
I had one of these!
@7:16 NUMBER RIGHT ZERO
number in wrong place ZERO
I hated, and to this day, still hate, this damn thing. As a mathphobe as a kid, my parents used this as a punishment tool.
It’s saying “What” it’s saying “Wut”!🤪
Deadmau5 any one....maths from deadmau5
Yes
me
Wow!
*weird noise* greaterthanlessthan ..... level 1
Two divided by zero
New Button! Exponential Level! And also Included the "^" Sign. The Levels: 1: The ^0 and ^1 Problems. 2: Squared Math, 3: Cubed Math. 4: ^4 to ^10. 5: ^11 to ^1,024, new Button which is helpful, the e and π! π is 3.1415192653589... And e is 2.718..., and also the button " x × 10^x" and "10^x" and the button "√" Which is Square Root. The Levels: 1: The Oneth Root, And Square Root. 2: Cube Root, 4th to 5th Root, 3: 6th to 10th roots. (FAKE)
the batteries are dead :)
78 - 36 = 42
78 - 36 = 42 😝
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