S.A.M. (Software Automatic Mouth) - TTS by Minki the Avali

S.A.M. - Software Automatic Mouth

This is a CC LUA port of the 1982 commodore 64 version by Mark Barton of Don't Ask Software. It works like the original, credits go to the original creator.

This program allows you to turn words or phoneme strings into spoken language on the speaker peripheral. It takes optional parameters like pitch and speed to allow for modulation to for example sing a song. (see the included daisy.lua example)

Usage: sam [options] Word1 Word2 ...
Options:
  -phonetic      phoneme input mode
  -pitch N       pitch value (default 64)
  -speed N       speed value (default 72)
  -throat N      throat value (default 128)
  -mouth N       mouth value (default 128)
  -sing          sing mode

For more detailed information on usage like phonetic mode parameters, pitch values and scripting, please consult the original C64 manual:

https://ia600308.us.archive.org/10/items/Commodore64SoftwareAutomaticMouthManual/Commodore64SoftwareAutomaticMouthManual.pdf