The MEA8000 is a Speech Synthesizer chip. It is a French equivalent to the SPO256 speech chip.
To hear what the MEA8000 chip is capable of go [here]].
With some clever programming it is possible to program a software Speech Synthesizer with good results.
Speech Synthesizer technology was also used in some games, with different quality.
Hardware Speech Synthesisers
Amstrad SSA-1 Speech Synthesizer (SPO256 based)
Dk'tronics Speech Synthesizer (SPO256 based)
TMPI speech synthetizer (MEA8000 based)
Software Speech synthesisers
Speech (Symbos software)
Games using Speech Synthesizer
Ghostbusters (Software)
Jumpjet (Hardware)
LastV8 (Software)
Robocop (Software)
Datasheet (English)
Datasheet MEA8000 (PDF)