Re: Apple Speech Synthesis

[Nick <spam@ix.netcom.com>]

Say-it Sam has a programming interface on it that allows you to use a basic program
to drive it's speech synthesis.  You can do some pretty interesting things with
inflection, pitch and speed.  To get it to do what you want, you have to use some
pretty strange spellings and puncuations, though.  It is a cool thing to have to
use to enhance a basic program.  It is actually possible to make it sing, too.

Daisy... Daisy...



Joe Serrano wrote:

> I'm not sure of what I've got, but in a stack of old Apple disks, I
> found SAM. It's a regular disk that I booted up and it appears to
> have four different sections on it. One is Demo, 2 is something
> called speeches, next is Guess number, and the last is called
> "Say it".
> In the Say it part you can type a line of conversation, hit return
> and it repeats what you typed, Looks like you can also change
> the speed and pitch of the voice. Might have to, this guy sounds
> Danish a lot and has some trouble with "G" and "J".
> If you want a copy send me a blank Apple disk (I'm out) and I'll mail
> you one. Please Email first -
>
> slick1355@yahoo.com
>
> On Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:48:23 GMT, Doug Browning <wpg750@mb.imag.net>
> wrote:
>
> >There used to be PosiTalker (Data Terminal Systems), I believe it had an Apple
> >version. It was intended for use in point of sale applications, so it had the
> >appropriate vocabulary for that application. Originally, it had a male Asian
> >voice, but later versions used a Hollywood actress for the voice to make it
> >more acceptable to the American market. DTS also used the same technology in
> >its cash registers at the time...
> >
> >NFreak wrote:
> >
> >> Hey-
> >> I think once there was a speech syntheziser add on for the Apple II line
> >> called apple talk or applespeech or something... does anybody know anything
> >> about this and where I could get one...
> >
> >
> >
> >--
> >Doug Browning
> >dougbrow@mb.imag.net
> >www.mb.imag.net/~wpg750
> >
> >