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title: "Tad Painter"
id: 11380
type: "company"
slug: "tad-painter"
url: "http://localhost/company/tad-painter/"
markdown_url: "http://localhost/company/tad-painter.md"
published_at: "2019-06-19T14:25:11+00:00"
modified_at: "2024-01-14T10:40:44+00:00"
author: "David Anderson"
featured_image:
  url: "http://localhost/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/20230809-041332.jpg"
excerpt: "Tad produced software and hardware for the Timex computers to support digitizing and playing back voice samples. His speech synthesizer software played back pre-recorded word samples. He later went on to make products for the Atari ST computers as Seymor-Radix. On Seymor-Radix product digitized images through an optical sensor attached to the print head on…"
category:
  - name: "Company"
    slug: "company"
    taxonomy: "category"
    url: "http://localhost/category/company/"
  - name: "Texas"
    slug: "tx"
    taxonomy: "category"
    url: "http://localhost/category/location/united-states/tx/"
post_tag:
  - name: "Tad Painter"
    slug: "tad-painter"
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    url: "http://localhost/tag/tad-painter/"
address: "Irving, TX 75016"
related_content:
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    title: "Tad Painter Documents"
    type: "document"
    url: "http://localhost/document/tad-painter-documents/"
advertisers:
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    title: "SUM v3 n5"
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    url: "http://localhost/issue/sum-v3-n5/"
  - id: 26627
    title: "SUM v3 n6"
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    url: "http://localhost/issue/sum-v3-n6/"
  - id: 26857
    title: "T-S Horizons n14"
    type: "issue"
    url: "http://localhost/issue/t-s-horizons-n14/"
archiveorg_url: "https://archive.org/details/tad-painter"
companies_articles:
  - id: 37651
    title: "Bits and Pieces"
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    url: "http://localhost/article/bits-and-pieces-3/"
  - id: 9324
    title: "For Your Support"
    type: "article"
    url: "http://localhost/article/for-your-support-6/"
  - id: 21530
    title: "Review: TS2068 Speech Synthesizer"
    type: "article"
    url: "http://localhost/article/review-ts2068-speech-synthesizer/"
  - id: 16080
    title: "Speech Synthesizer for the TS-1000"
    type: "article"
    url: "http://localhost/article/speech-synthesizer-for-the-ts-1000/"
  - id: 70376
    title: "REVIEW: TS1000 Speech Synthesizer"
    type: "article"
    url: "http://localhost/article/review-ts1000-speech-synthesizer/"
companies_products:
  - id: 37603
    title: "Amplifier Unit for TS Computers"
    type: "product"
    url: "http://localhost/product/amplifier-unit-for-ts-computers/"
  - id: 20322
    title: "Digitizing Hardware"
    type: "product"
    url: "http://localhost/product/digitizing-hardware/"
  - id: 37602
    title: "Filtered Connector Plug"
    type: "product"
    url: "http://localhost/product/filtered-connector-plug/"
  - id: 37597
    title: "Speech Synthesizer (1000/1500)"
    type: "product"
    url: "http://localhost/product/speech-synthesizer-1000-1500/"
  - id: 14012
    title: "Speech Synthesizer (2068)"
    type: "product"
    url: "http://localhost/product/speech-synthesizer/"
  - id: 37599
    title: "Talking Alarm Clock for TS2068"
    type: "product"
    url: "http://localhost/product/talking-alarm-clock-for-ts2068/"
  - id: 37601
    title: "Talking Biorhythm for TS2068"
    type: "product"
    url: "http://localhost/product/talking-biorhythm-for-ts2068/"
  - id: 37172
    title: "Talking Space Zap"
    type: "product"
    url: "http://localhost/product/talking-space-zap/"
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---

Tad produced software and hardware for the Timex computers to support digitizing and playing back voice samples. His speech synthesizer software played back pre-recorded word samples.

He later went on to make products for the Atari ST computers as Seymor-Radix. On Seymor-Radix product digitized images through an optical sensor attached to the print head on the user’s printer.