Commodore 64 Speech Synth TEST

[steven00836]

This thing is pure evil

IT DESTROYED MUSIC

[dieselwarriordotcom]

SAM - Software Automatic Mouth, I had the software waaaaay back when I was into the C64 also, was amazing stuff back then!

[neogeo53]

please could u tell me where u got it ive been looking for one all over the place and cant find any

[KawaiFS630]

@neogeo53

Sorry, but the version I´ve used isn´t a english one, I don´t know if you see it useful.

[visions84]

das boot voice?

[robertrivasphotos]

great... now can it make a decent cup of tea?

[KawaiFS630]

@robertrivasphotos

And a toast.

Also a... cake.

[MasterMWL]

@KawaiFS630

But the cake is a lie.

[KawaiFS630]

@MasterMWL

OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO­OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO­OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO­OOOOOOOOD

[ematech]

1982 ! c64 and amiga rulkezz the rest has no soul.

[cheezpuff86]

Try SBTALKER. It originally came with the SB16 sound card installation disks, but I'm pretty sure it is on a ftp server somewhere. If you google it, it should come up. I'm pretty sure because I found it once this way. If I am correct, it should run without emulation even up to windows xp. If you are using Vista or above, simply use dosBOX to run it.

Loading it is a little tricky, but fairly easy once you've done it once. It goes like this: first run sbtalk.bat, then read.exe.

[AerialTheShamen]

@cheezpuff86 So far I remember, the SoundBlaster speech synth tested for the presence of the original ISA card and won't run unless you can emulate it. It also contained 4MB(?) of phoneme samples, so the timbre was not as fully synthetic as Amiga or C64 speech.

In OPL3 spects stands that certain FM waveforms were intended for speech synthesis mode. Has anybody ever found a program that made use of it for a speech synth?

[MarioZone69]

shomodor-eh shickstie four-or

[mmrva]

Is there any PC software that sounds EXACTLY the same as c64 SAM? I just can't find any.

[KawaiFS630]

You can use VICE64 and a tape dump of SAM.

[nrdesign1991]

Thanks for posting! I got the program to talk english and german quite well now ;)

[Aqwert76]

Sounds wired lol

[16mmDJ]

it sounds like some foreigner.

[KawaiFS630]

It´s because I used a non english version.

[16mmDJ]

Haha. i see.

[leknightcluber]

love every day but this computer and its 6581

seems like a robot talking

I think not digitized samples

the voice is a program?

[KawaiFS630]

Yes, his name is SAM, see the video description.

[vilmo98]

I've got a c64, so please tell me how did you do that...

[KawaiFS630]

The name of the software that I used on this video is "SAM" (Software Automatic Mouth).

[vilmo98]

Thank you...

[vilmo98]

Please tell me what are you type in after you load the program...

[KawaiFS630]

I can´t write some symbols on the comments, here´s a manual:

ww w.members.tripod.c om/the-cbm-files/speak/samdoc.­txt

[KawaiFS630]

@vilmo98

Please read the video details.

[wizard86]

Very similar to STspeech for Atari, which featured in U96's hit "Das Boot". There was also a similar app for Amiga. SAM / Reciter for C64 is very grainy, but you can get good results if you write the words the way you would pronounce them, not like in this video.

[KawaiFS630]

The only ver I got is an non english ver, so imagine how hard it is to imitate english without a english version.

You´ve talked about a speech program for the A500, you could tell me what program it is? thanks.

[sonick808]

the woodgrain adds an extra essence to the video :) I cannot compute on old computers without proximity to woodgrain, shag carpet, or orange plastic eames chairs.

[iofu]

project64 . c64 . org / misc / sam10 . zip

[steviebboy69]

i remember that at school and im sure if you typed ]reciter

it did plain text to speech and all us at school made it say rude language.

i remember it as if it was yesterday and it was back in about 1986

[SaganAppreciationSoc]

I wonder if my SAM software was a later version. It pronounced English better. Maybe you got a foriegn version?

Have it say $ # / / a snarling, drooling wolf

[KawaiFS630]

I used the only version I have, I think is a rumanian version...

[neodorian]

There are better commands than "sayit" for this program that give you more accurate speech. I only say this because I had this program as a kid and played with it a lot.

You have the ability to add numbers into the phonetic words to change the inflection or pronunciation. Not sure if you can find the manual anywhere now.

[KawaiFS630]

Thanks for the information. I have a little information of how to use SAM (the basic command op.) but I don´t found one manual of SAM.

[WhiteDragon103]

Sommodoray Shishdee Foura

[Lachlant1984]

Is the synthesizer a hardware box connected to the computer, or are you using a speech program.

[KawaiFS630]

Is a speech program called "SAM" through the Commodore 64.

[dj2bklyn]

so thats where they got speak and spell lol

[Sumguy21]

Oh boy a video about you typing on a commodore64 featuring seconds of synthesized voices.

[KawaiFS630]

You are right, the video maybe is too long... The next time I will try to shorten the next video that did..

[astridcynthia]

good good amigos

[KawaiFS630]

Hace a nice day

[KawaiFS630]

...for copying my video

[LoveMyZJ]

That's pretty trippy lol

[Raunchola]

you can switch to "english-mode" by typing ]RE. And ]SA is the phoneme-mode.

[KawaiFS630]

I don´t know this, thanks.

[Raunchola]

;)

no problem

[KawaiFS630]

You can´t replace it with a normal switch?

[KawaiFS630]

Upload it. These type of videos always are good for info & research :)

[landstalker]

There is always a 1st step in the history of the things. Without this stuff Loquendo and all the new voice programs would not exist nowadays.

Good video ;D

Menuda paranoia no? XD

[ERFJ]

GREAT!!!!