A Python port of Software Automatic Mouth Test-To-Speech program. SAM is 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.).

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June 23, 2023 - Subreddit for posting questions and asking for general advice about all topics related to learning python. ... Hello, I'm working on a simple program for tts, but I want to use Microsoft Sam. My first thought is to use pytts but I don't know how I would go about changing the voice to Sam.

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Better SAM Software Automatic Mouth · Text to speak: · Pitch: · Speed: · Mouth: · Throat: · Preview · Download · GitHub Code · -More features soon-

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This work is based upon the amazing reverse engineering efforts of Sebastian Macke based upon an old text-to-speech (TTS) program called SAM (Software Automated Mouth) originally released in 1982 for the Commodore 64. The result is a small C library that we have adopted and adapted for the ...

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A user on Reddit found a solution.

Turns out that gTTS works under Python 3.x, it was me that was importing the module wrong.

I was using:

import gtts
blabla = ("Spoken text")
tts = gTTS(text=blabla, lang='en')
tts.save("C:/test.mp3")

Resulting in the following error:

NameError: name 'gTTS' is not defined

When the correct way is:

from gtts import gTTS
blabla = ("Spoken text")
tts = gTTS(text=blabla, lang='en')
tts.save("C:/test.mp3")

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The best solution for that is :

pyttsx3

Pyttsx3 is an offline cross-platform Text-to-Speech library which is compatible with both Python 3 and Python 2 and supports multiple TTS engines.

I have found it very useful and there is no delay in sound production unlike gTTS which needs internet connection to work and also has some delay.

To install :

Here is a sample code :


    import pyttsx3
    engine = pyttsx3.init()
    engine.say("Hello this is me talking")
    engine.setProperty('rate',120)  #120 words per minute
    engine.setProperty('volume',0.9) 
    engine.runAndWait()

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SAM: Software Automatic Mouth

Sam is a very small Text-To-Speech (TTS) program written in C, that runs on most popular platforms. It is an adaption to C of the speech software SAM (Software Automatic Mouth) for the Commodore C64 published in the year 1982 by Don't Ask Software (now SoftVoice, Inc.).

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r/Twitch on Reddit: how to make TTS sound like SAM

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So I want to make twitch tts to sound like SAM (Software Automatic Mouth). There's an online browser version of it [here] but I'm trying to get like an offline program of it or something to read messages out loud. And I'm not sure how to get pre-existing tts programs to sound like it if it's possible. Some help would be nice. Please and thank you.

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I also want to do that :(

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Mike > Sam

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For offline use in Windows, use SAPI directly.

You can use SpVoice.

import win32com.client
speaker = win32com.client.Dispatch("SAPI.SpVoice")
speaker.Speak("Jumpman Jumpman Jumpman Them boys up to something!")

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Have you tried using Google Text-to-Speech via gTTS?

The syntax for using it in Python 3.x is as follows:

from gtts import gTTS
my_tts = "Text you want to process"
tts = gTTS(text=my_tts, lang='en')
tts.save("Absolute/path/to/file.mp3")

Here is the github repo of gTTS.

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r/godot on Reddit: How to port Microsoft Sam TTS into Godot like KinitoPET?

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I don't know much else to write about my problem. I found a website with the TTS but that's about it.

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So you need a speech synthesizer, OS's conveniently come with one built in, and Godot also has the means to make call's to it. https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/audio/text_to_speech.html The downside is its not going to sound exactly the same on every system. Making a custom TTS engine would be a lot of work, and personally the best solution would be to pre-record the voices and implement them as audio files.

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r/DSP on Reddit: How Software Automatic Mouth (SAM) worked?

July 24, 2019 -

Does anyone know how the text-to-speech used on the Commodore, i.e. Software Automatic Mouth, or SAM, actually synthesized the voice? Did it have any sort of recorded sample data? Did it just use additive synthesis? Or formant synthesis?

There's a github of someone's port of it to C here, although many of the variables, functions, and labels are just named based on their location in memory, not their function, so it still appears a black box.