[DECtalk] better sam 1982

[joshknnd1982 at gmail.com]

Well, seeing as how sam source code is out there written in c, I'm sure
improvements could be made to its pronunciation and other stuff. You do know
sam if it is made into an NVDA addon and sapi5, will be one of the most
responsive tts's we will have, ever. Sam could run on a comodor 64 computer
with just 64kb of ram maybe even 35kb and a 1mhz single processor. And it
had to fit on a 360kb 5 and a half inch floppy disk. Sam only had around 450
letter to sound rules. 



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To clarify my statement in the thread below: If a SAPI5 version of Software
Automatic Mouth is created, I would consider trying it out. I don't see
myself using such TTS long-term with screen readers. However, to borrow an
old saying: "You don't know until you try."

Blake


On 1/27/2023 7:31 PM, joshknnd1982 at gmail.com wrote:
> Probably. But remember blind people used the echo pc and gp for quite a
long time, echo synthesizer by street electronics and it had pretty bad
pronunciation. I would use it with NVDA just for how vintage, classic, and
retro that it is.
>
>
>
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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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