[DECtalk] better sam 1982

joshknnd1982 at gmail.com joshknnd1982 at gmail.com
Fri Jan 27 19:33:03 EST 2023


Also, the votrax synthesizer had pretty bad pronunciation and I used that one for years. 


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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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