[DECtalk] better sam 1982

[Blake Roberts]

I agree with Jake M. It is my understanding that Software Automatic 
Mouth was the first software-based speech synthesizer. I would not want 
to use SAPI5 or NVDA ad-on of Software Automatic Mouth because the TTS 
mispronounces simple words. I typed the following sentences into the 
online version of Better SAM.


"JAWS for Windows is ready. In the beginning, God created the heavens 
and the earth."


Windows, beginning and heavens were all mispronounced. Meaning: not 
spoken correctly by Software Automatic Mouth. I could probably hear 
better TTS if I still had Windows XP with Microsoft Sam.

Blake



On 1/27/2023 6:32 PM, jake mcmahan wrote:
> This as sapi... No thank you.  I mean... If people want it that way, 
> but I couldn't tolerate that voice for a near 5 seconds.  Yes I 
> believe it's a nice piece of history but sapi and nvda is going too 
> far in my book.
>
>
> On 1/27/2023 7:00 PM, Brandon Misch wrote:
>> that would be interesting.
>>
>> On 1/27/23, joshknnd1982 at gmail.com <joshknnd1982 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Check this out! A link to the source code is below the demo. It's 
>>> written
>>> in
>>> c. so we could maybe have this ported as an NVDA addon and to sapi5,
>>> android, and IOS. The website is:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> https://imrane03.github.io/better-sam/
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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