SAM Speech Synthesis for the Commodore 64

[redrumloa]

Enjoy!

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[tokyoracer]

NEAT! Is this from your C128 tower? Nice work, funny video!

I actually have a Speccy speech synth called a 'Sweet Talker' (though far from what i'd call sweet sounding lol) which is not too dis-similar sounding to yours (amazingly).

[redrumloa]

NEAT! Is this from your C128 tower? Nice work, funny video!

I actually have a Speccy speech synth which is not too dis-similar sounding to yours (amazingly).

Thanks! This is actually on a Commodore 64 with JiffyDOS, but otherwise a stock machine. The 128 Tower is not hooked up atm, but it will be hooked up again shortly as I clear some desk space.

Was your Speccy speech synth hardware or software based? SAM was purely software based.

[tokyoracer]

Thanks! This is actually on a Commodore 64 with JiffyDOS, but otherwise a stock machine. The 128 Tower is not hooked up atm, but it will be hooked up again shortly as I clear some desk space.

Was your Speccy speech synth hardware or software based? SAM was purely software based.

Hardware, they only have a little internal beeper speaker so you would need a speech synth box for a ZX to talk.
Mind you it comes with a demo cassette. Clever thing is it was designed for programmers and game editing (basic) so you could add scripts for games to communicate with the talker for real speech, which I think is real clever for a Spectrum. The cassette mentioned about that possible use.

P.s. That question about your hardware was a bit of a dumb one as I wasn't paying attention to the start-up C= basic title screen, sorry!

[redrumloa]

P.s. That question about your hardware was a bit of a dumb one as I wasn't paying attention to the start-up C= basic title screen, sorry!

Actually not a dumb question at all. If I was using the 128T, I would have to boot into C64 mode. The C64 mode would look the same, if I had the SuperCPU disabled.

[tekopaa]

Damn! i remember this many hours with laugh.... Me and my friend writing stoopid words to it.
I rememeber if u writed @@@@@@@@@@@@@no******* it sounded really funny

[redrumloa]

Damn! i remember this many hours with laugh.... Me and my friend writing stoopid words to it.
I rememeber if u writed @@@@@@@@@@@@@no******* it sounded really funny

I agree it was a laugh and pretty ground breaking when it was first released.

[tokyoracer]

I agree it was a laugh and pretty ground breaking when it was first released.

I still find it funny how people went crazy over the Macintosh talking (and some pathetic scrolling text) in 1984, yet the C64 was just as capable 2 - 3 years prior to that.

[motrucker]

I still have a working copy of SAM. My grandchildren can spend hours with it, laughing themselves silly.
It pretty amazing how far they took speech with the early Amiga. We could almost understand that.