This is a C# port of the Text-To-Speech (TTS) software SAM (Software Automatic Mouth) for the Commodore C64 published in the year 1982 by Don't Ask Software (now SoftVoice, Inc.).
It is based on the adaption to C by Stefan Macke and the refactorings by Vidar Hokstad and 8BitPimp, further rewritten in JavaScript by discordier.
It includes a Text-To-Phoneme converter called reciter and a Phoneme-To-Speech routine for the final output.
For further details, refer to retrobits.net
Some analytics of S.A.M. in general can be found in Artyom Skrobov's (@tyomitch) blog who also provided pretty insightful PRs. Visit his blog https://habr.com/ru/post/500764/ (in Russian) or the google translated version here.
Typical example:
Sam sam = new Sam();
byte[] audio = sam.Speak("Hello, my name is SAM.");
// Do something with the audio, for example play it or save to a fileWith custom options:
Sam sam = new Sam(new Options(speed: 82, pitch: 72, throat: 110, mouth: 105));
byte[] audio = sam.Speak("Hello, my name is Stuffy Guy.");Phonetic mode:
Sam sam = new Sam();
byte[] audio = sam.SpeakPhonetic("DHIHS IHZ FAHNEHTIHK MOW5D");Async synthesis is also possible:
Sam sam = new Sam();
sam.SpeakAsync("I am speaking asynchronously").ContinueWith(audio => DoSomething(audio));The SamSharpCli project contains a simple testing program, which can be run from the command line to try out SAM. Run it with:
./SamSharpCli [-p --pitch pitch] [-s --speed speed] [-m --mouth mouth] [-t --throat throat] [--phonetic] [--sing] [-o --output path/to/file.wav] <text to speak>
If the -o option is omitted, the program will play the synthesized speech on your default audio device. The pitch, speed, mouth and throat parameters should be numbers from 0 to 255.
DESCRIPTION SPEED PITCH THROAT MOUTH
Elf 72 64 110 160
Little Robot 92 60 190 190
Stuffy Guy 82 72 110 105
Little Old Lady 82 32 145 145
Extra-Terrestrial 100 64 150 200
SAM 72 64 128 128
I have bundled a copy of the original manual in this repository, see the manual file in the docs directory.
The software is a reverse-engineered version of a commercial software published more than 30 years ago. The current copyright holder is SoftVoice, Inc. (www.text2speech.com)
Any attempt to contact the company failed. The website was last updated in the year 2009. The status of the original software can therefore best described as abandonware (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abandonware)
As long this is the case I cannot put my code under any specific open source software license. Use it at your own risk.
If you have questions don't hesitate to ask me. If you discovered some new knowledge about the code please file an issue.