27. An electronic learning aid according to claim 23, wherein said response generating means includes means for providing digitized speech data to said speech synthesizer means whereby said operator may be audibly informed in human speech of the results of said comparison.
23. An electronic learning aid for training an operator in spelling, said learning aid comprising: memory means for storing digital data including digitized speech data from which one or more words of human speech and the correct spellings thereof may be respectively derived, speech synthesizer means operably associated with said memory means and including means for converting said digitized speech data into audible human speech, means for receiving inputs from an operator of said learning aid, means for providing said digitized speech data from said memory means to said speech synthesizer means, means for randomly selecting a particular word to be spelled by an operator of said learning aid, said particular word being derived from digitized speech data stored in said memory means and converted to audible human speech by said speech synthesizer means, means for comparing an input entered at said operator input means with said correct spelling stored as digital data in said memory means and for generating a result signal indicative of the results of said comparison, and means for generating a response to said operator in accordance with said result signal.