S.A.M. (Software Automatic Mouth) is an old TTS (Text-To-Speech) program published in 1982 by Don't Ask Software (now SoftVoice, Inc.).
For the official manual, refer to retrobits.net.
This repo houses a Javascript port of this software for the Deno runtime based on the Commodore C64 version.
It was created as a fork of this repo by discordier, with additional functionality taken from a different fork of the same repo by reticivis-net.
//for the latest version
import SamJs from "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ozaner/sam/refs/heads/master/src/index.js";
//for a specific HASH
// import SamJs from "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ozaner/sam/<HASH>/src/index.js";
let text = "Hello world";
// Initialize new SamJS w/ default settings
let sam = new SamJs();
// Render the passed text as a buffer of PCM w/ samples of type u8
const buf8 = sam.pcmU8(text); //returns a Uint8Array
// Render the passed text as a buffer of PCM w/ samples of type f32
const buf32 = sam.buf32(text); //returns a Float32Array
// Render the passed text as a buffer containing a valid wav (uses u8 samples)
const wav = sam.wav(text) //returns a Uint8Array| 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 |
The software is a reverse-engineered version of a commercial software published more than 30 years ago. The current copyright holder is SoftVoice, Inc.
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.
As a result, and as with all other non-clean-room reverse-engineerings of this software, this code probably can't be put under any specific open source software license.
(But if you ask me, none of this really matters...)