Appendix III - LOAD, SAVE and BEEP

Before attempting to LOAD from a tape recorder, it is sensible to disable the keyvoices, as otherwise you will get a continuous "e" allophone outputted during the program load. This is due to the tape handling routines taking complete control of the Spectrum's CPU and preventing the MicroSpeech from updating its speech buffer. Upon completion of the LOAD, the "enter" keyvoice is completed normally.

If you leave the keyvoices on during SAVE, you will hear a keyvoice after the preliminary data block has been written to the tape recorder (the keyvoice you will hear is the one you press after the "press any key" prompt).

If you BEEP in the middle of an allophone, you will "draw out" the allophone and combine it with a musical tone, as the BEEP command prevents updates of the speech buffer for the duration of the tone. If you are very clever, you may be able to use this effect to make the MicroSpeech "sing".