Thanks! This is actually on a Commodore 64 with JiffyDOS, but otherwise a stock machine. The 128 Tower is not hooked up atm, but it will be hooked up again shortly as I clear some desk space.
Was your Speccy speech synth hardware or software based? SAM was purely software based.
Hardware, they only have a little internal beeper speaker so you would need a speech synth box for a ZX to talk.
Mind you it comes with a demo cassette. Clever thing is it was designed for programmers and game editing (basic) so you could add scripts for games to communicate with the talker for real speech, which I think is real clever for a Spectrum.
The cassette mentioned about that possible use.
P.s. That question about your hardware was a bit of a dumb one as I wasn't paying attention to the start-up C= basic title screen, sorry!