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2005-02-11 06:58
korshun
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Registered: Apr 2002
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SID speech synth

Hey !

Once there was a tiny program on a diskmag, you typed in a text, who was kind of speech-modeled replayed.
The fascinating point was, it was using sid only.
I traced it back in before 1990 ...
Can anyone tell me sth. about the program or where I can get it or more easier: on what diskmag and what issue it has been published ?
:-Z

Thank you in advance ...
gour
2005-02-11 07:29
White Flame

Registered: Sep 2002
Posts: 136
It's called "SAM", or the Software Automated Mouth. Google found it here: http://www.members.tripod.com/the-cbm-files/speak/ After loading it, type "]RE" to enable Reciter, so you can SAY"ENGLISH WORDS". If you don't, then you have to spell things out in its phonetic codes which I don't have a reference for.

EDIT: Found the manual on project64: http://project64.c64.org/misc/sam10.zip
2005-02-11 08:56
korshun
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hep
Although this is apparantly not exactly the program I was looking for, it is a good alternative.
Thank you very much for your efforts.

gour / NPL
2005-02-11 11:57
dalezy

Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 475
gourment, i have something like that on my disks, and it's not sam as far as i remember.
one can control the pitch and speed in this one, i hope that's what you're after.

lets see if i find it in the next time =)
2005-02-11 12:03
Ben
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Registered: Feb 2003
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The pronounciation of 'bloemkolen' is horrible.. at least that is what I recollect from 1988 or so.. It should be possible to tune the voice so as to sound like a woman.. (regretfully SAM lacks a 'sweet whisper mode')..

OK. After playing with it, the Dutch 'oe' vowel is best approximated by the English 'oo' sound..
Nice program btw..

Please note that especially Agemixer is an expert in emulating robot voices. (Nothing like the 'tchwainghhl' sounds by JCH :))

2005-02-12 09:15
Stryyker

Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 465
One of them BASIC extenstion versions can use a little tweaking and use them for demos - I atleast tried to with my Half Demo.

I remember one of them using the same colour scheme as 6510+ Assembler - grey background and yellow writing. Another syth used blue background and white text.
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