The speaking module - called SCRIPTOVOX - of the automatic Hungarian reading machine was developed in the years 1983-86 by a four-member research team (3) of electrical engineers.

The speaking module using the general purpose, programmable MEA 8000 type integrated circuit for speech generation, converts any Hungarian text - given in ASCII codes - into good quality speech. (Only the automatic Hungarian text-to-speech (TTS) conversion is discussed below, the grapheme-to-ASCII character converter - developed at the Institute for Computer Research, Budapest - is not discussed here).