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Re: Help with S.A.M.

sfahey wrote:

  To: Allen Bong
  Re: Re: Help with S.A.M.
  By: Allen Bong to comp.sys.apple2 on Wed Aug 29 2007 05:24 pm

 > > There is no card--it's all software that runs on a standard
 > > Apple II and "talks" through the speaker.
 > AH!!! no card!! Should have thought that out.  Otherwise how could it
 > be called 100% software - automated mouth.


There is a S.A.M. synthesis card - I have a couple stored around here
somewhere.


Yes, that's the irony--there is a hardware-assisted "Software Automatic
Mouth" and a completely software one.  ;-)

Of course, the text-to-wave transformation is the "speech" part, and
both versions do that.  The software-only version adds a software PWM
DAC for the Apple speaker.  (The card is just an 8-bit DAC with an
audio amplifier and speaker--it could be used for arbitrary sound
output pretty easily.)

-michael

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