9. A computer system in accordance with claim 3 wherein: said processor control programs and logic include command sequences that interpret the contents of said data vector memory to be the starting addresses of speech data segments in said speech data segment memory.
3. A phrase speaking computer system having a programmable digital computer and a speech processor, the speech processor comprising: a voice synthesizer; a speech data segment memory; a command memory; control processor means, including processor control programs and logic connecting to said memories and to said voice synthesizer, arranged to scan said command memory and to respond to command data entries stored therein by transferring corresponding speech data segments from said speech data segment memory to said voice synthesizer; a speech data vector memory containing vector data that associates numeric codes of said command data entries with speech data segments in said speech data segment memory; wherein said processor control programs and logic connect to said vector memory and utilize the vector data contained therein to determine which speech data segments are transferred to said speech synthesizer in response to the scanning of particular numeric codes within command data entries in said command memory; data conveyance means connecting said computer to said command memory for transferring said command data entries supplied by said computer into said command memory; and an enable signal line connecting said computer to said speech processor and arranged to initiate the operation of said processor control programs and logic when said enable signal line is enabled by said computer; said programmable computer including speech control programs controlling the operation of said computer including data conveyance command sequences that cause said computer to supply command data entries to said data conveyance means and speech processor enabling command sequences that cause said computer to energize said enable signal line.