Great Hierophant
Veteran Member
What's especially tragic about that particular prediction is that the Sound Source has a fixed output rate of 7Khz. (It is fixed in the hardware design; you can't "overdrive" or "overclock" it.) It is acceptable for voice, adequate for sound effects, and useless for music. There is no possible way it could replace even the original Covox Speech Thing (which was entirely driven by CPU and had a higher frequency range).
My guess is that Dvorak had never actually heard one when he wrote that blurb.
I think his kids were crazy over anything related to Disney. Unfortunately he was simply ignorant of the fact that sample-based synthesis and floppy disks only really became the standard on the Amiga.