Electronic voice alert (EVA) was an option available on many Chrysler K-car-based vehicles in the mid-1980s.
[1] Chrysler and Dodge used technology of the Texas Instruments LPC Speech Chips, that were also used in the Speak & Spell toy.
The EVA would automatically lower the radio volume and deliver eleven different spoken warning messages[2] to drivers using a speech synthesizer[3] in 24 certain models.
[5] The messages are played from a miniature phonograph record,[6] similar as used in speaking dolls.
[13][14] Generally paired with a digital instrument cluster and considered the height of technology at the time, many drivers grew weary of the system constantly admonishing them to fasten their seatbelts and turned it off via removing a fuse,[12] which sometimes deactivates the fuel gauge.