Thursday, July 16, 2009

Ad of the Day #11 - Software Automated Mouth

For the Winter Warm Up 2008 Retrochallenge (which I, cough, cough, won for best hardware project) I coaxed the Talking Moose out of retirement at the half way point to wish fellow retrochallengers good luck. (inspired by Wgoodf's earlier use of a frickin cool spark printer.)

This time, I am bringing out an even older talking friend from 1982 - S.A.M. - short for Software Automatic Mouth - the first all software speech synthesizer. This really cool program could add speech to your Applesoft or Atari Basic programs.

8 bit speech isn't exactly crystal clear, but hey it's still a blast to get these old machines to talk. Sorry if it butchers your screen names...





No comments: