Short: amiga-port of famous C64 speech synthesizer SAM

Author: sebastian@macke.de (Sebastian Macke)

Uploader: selco@t-online.de (Alexander Fritsch)

Type: util/sys

Version: 1.1

Architecture: m68k-amigaos

Distribution: Aminet

This is the Amiga port of Sebastian Macke's great C-adaption of the

speech software SAM (Software Automatic Mouth) for the Commodore C64.

It creates a nice sounding voice directly from text. That sound can be

played via audio.device (default) or via ahi.device (-ahi unit).

The sound can also be saved to a wave-file. Input is possible in either

English text mode for automatic translation or in phoneme mode (-phonetic)

Just enter sam <enter> to get a list of options.

sam Hello, my name is sam.

The program can be loaded resident to skip load times on further invocations.

Resident sam PURE

For a few more examples cd into demos_amiga drawer and enjoy the show.

Resident sam PURE ; load sam only once

cd demos_amiga

execute demo1

execute demo2

; and so on...

; also try the tiny game

rx guess_number.rexx

Resident sam Remove

Requirements:

Any Amiga will do. An 68000 is sufficient but an 68020 or better is utilized

if present. On a plain 7MHz 68000 it takes a few seconds to calculate until

sound occurs. Standard Amiga stack (4096) is sufficient.

Either audio.device or ahi.device is used for playback.