aiiadict@gmail.com wrote:
S.A.M. "Software Automated Mouth" is speech output for the apple II. It requires no sound card (it can output through the speaker). It is the only software I have seen before today that would do this. "The Voice" by Muse Software? according to Bill Garber: "Everything I'm getting from my searches tells me "The Voice" also does voice recognition."
I thought "The Voice" was only speech synthesis? I can't seem to find it anymore, but I remember when you'd boot it up and run the demo it would say "The People at muse software have perfected speech synthesis on the apple II computer." There were a coupple demos, one of a lores santa face saying "HO! HO! HO! Merry Christmas!" I wish I could find a disk image for this.
There was also a small program called "Speak Up!" that when you ran it it would say that ("Speak UP!" -- very poorly, I remember reloading it from disk a dozen times before I realized it, I seem to remember it would overwrite part of itself or do something to reduce it's memory size so if you tried BLOADing it and calling it it would only say it the first time!) It included an applesoft interface routine so that any string that start with a control character (can't remember, ctrl-D?) or something like that would be spoken instead of being printed to the screen.
Any other speech synthesis programs besides SAM? Kevin www.applevault.com