Dr. Sbaitso (1992) vs. Microsoft Sam

[leileilol]

You can force a parity error by just typing "say parity"

Also, Sbaitso can't pronounce "retard" or "retarded"...

[NeoLightElectro]

am i the only one here who actualy likes microsoft sam? :[

[awesomemann1234]

NuuUUUUUU! Let's change the subject.

LOL!

[Lachlant1984]

Oh how I hate Microsoft Sam so damn much, it's a horrible voice. At least now I'm on the Mac i have better speech synthesis voices to use. This voice sounds very much like the DoubleTalk voices used on things like the BrailleLite Millennium and ID Mate, only it's more expressive with it's intonations.

[wilkes85]

Dr. Spätzle? I'm hungry now lol

[skypedog221]

At the 3:14 mark, you put the "f" word in the scrambled text. LOL

[jatimatiktimoska]

awwwwwwwwwwww.....



[dispatcher50100]

@Vwestlife, Hello, I have a question reference the SBTALKER application.

I downloaded the DOSBOX DOS emulator, using Windows XP. However, I am new to DOSBOX. If there are commands to type in order to get the SBTALKER application running, what are they.

I've also never really worked that much with MSDOS myself.

If there are no commands, what exactly am I doing incorrectly?

[artifactingreality]

now I know that 2 plus 2 equals 2, 4!

[rumblebee51]

haha you should make a video of microsoft sam using this program it'd be funny

[FuyuAkiWorld]

Who's Microsfot Sam?

[valcarni1]

2 plus 2 equals 2 4

[UmaBlinky]

I've been familiar with text to speech since the 80s. The junk for the blind was way over priced, like at least 500$, and JAWS was like 900$ just for the software. DecTalk was also very expensive. The ECHO PC speech synth card was about 150$. VoTalker was also like 200$, so for a blind person to hear their confuser was like 1K$. The Apple II was very popular for speech computers. But the speech took some gettin used to - it sounded crappy.

[Mr1p0d]

LOL at 3:16. When you are typing the letters you typed the word "fuck" and at 3:20 you typed the word "shit"

When you type one of these words, Dr Sbaitso runs the parity error

I apologize for my bad English

Good video!!!

[uutyr1]

he cant say goobye in 1 word lolz

[hddr3]

doctor sbaitso sounds like he would be japanese !

[SlimeTron5000]

When I tried this programme many years ago on a 386, it came from the floppies of the Sound Blaster sampler. But I certainly remember Sbaitso executing an extended parity error, where he says "Don't try it next time".

[leileilol]

@SlimeTron5000 That's said in the earlier version 1.01. The widely seen version is 2.20 which came off the Sound Blaster Pro.

[themaritimeman]

@MachinimaMan141 No what? It doesn't emulate a Sound Blaster? It must, if the program works. Either that or the sound card itself can emulate one, which I believe many sound cards can do.

[MixerVM]

Dr. Sbaitso sounds a little like Microsoft Sam

[themaritimeman]

That was hilarious! I gotta try this in DOSBox!

[themaritimeman]

No need for DOSBox, it turns out. I'm running it straight from Windows 7 and it works fine. I guess the Windows command line correctly emulates a Sound Blaster?

[uxwbill]

@themaritimeman The NTVDM subsystem in Windows XP and later does, in fact, provide sound card emulation services. Prior to this, something like VDMsound was required.

[BadEditPro]

I remember seeing a program like this in my brother's college computer lab. It was called Eliza and the only way to stop the game was to tell her to shut up. Is this the same way? :) JC

[vwestlife]

@BadEditPro It's the same basic idea as Eliza, just with voice synthesis added. If you tell Dr. Sbaitso to shut up, the program pauses for about 30 seconds.

[weasel2htm]

Anybody else notice that right before the computer told him "Don't get fresh" the F-bomb was in that string of characters?

[vwestlife]

@weasel2htm I did that on purpose. I wanted to show the "parity error" that Dr. Sbaitso generates if you curse at him more than once.

[Bassboostz]

Is there a way to download this?

[vwestlife]

@Bassboostz You can find it on various download sites, but you need to run it in DOSbox or on an old PC with a Sound Blaster card, or else you won't hear the voice.

[spunker88]

@vwestlife Virtualbox emulates the Soundblaster 16 card, would that work?

[vwestlife]

@spunker88 Yes, the SBTALKER driver works with any 100% Sound Blaster compatible emulation.

[bakonfreek]

that was kool

[ThisGuyFrritz]

Try "fhqwhgads" or "qazwsxedcrfvtgbyhnujmikolp".

[MacintoshUser1986]

There's a great text to speech application on OSX as well.

This was funny,

[GenesisKnights]

I remember this! I had it on my old olivetti.

Funny :)

[compactc9]

This is too funny, I think the software wants you to deal with your hatred of MS Sam. LOL

[MixerVM]

What computer did you use for this?

[allboutk]

lol wasteman

[GanEdenAustralia]

Whats a wasteman?

[clubcar98]

That is hysterical. I could spend hours playing with that.

"GET FRESH!"

It reminds me of a similar thing online called Clever Bot, well, it makes as much nonsense as Dr. Sbaitso!

[umajunkcollector]

say wowowowowowowowowo

say ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

I used to have a DOS thing called Alter Ego that was crazy fun. 

[WackoX1337]

no-ooo-OOOOO 1

[wilkes85]

Whoa!!!! that is one wild program. A person could spend hours playing around with that!

"Don't get fresh" HAHAHA!!!

[CJaguar265]

wow they dont make things like they used too

[SlimeTron5000]

@MachinimaMan141 Lexicon.