Somebody made a program for the Novation AppleCat modem (which had an 8 bit ADC on board) which used S.A.M. to make prank phone calls. It was called "CAT CRANK CALLER" and had canned messages and a selections of voices. One was called "old woman" and I remember it making calls with the script, "Help me, help me please! Help my baby! My baby is on fire! Help my baby!"
The AppleFax Modem was actually capable of playing digitized sound. The three main developers recorded themselves saying their first names and put the recordings in the firmware as an Easter egg. Unfortunately I haven't been able to find a video of someone demonstrating this, and this is perhaps due to the fact that it is a VERY rare thing.
How does this software work anyway? Does it use some kind of wave-table playback where each phoneme is a sample and it strings them together in the right order to make words, or is it something more complex than that?
I haven't studied how it works. I'm just as baffled but I think your description is actually fairly accurate. I think there is a manual online describing how to program it
From what I've read about it, it involves mathematical wave transforms rather than audio samples, but apart from that it does work by concatenating allophones.
it came out of a book. Here's my facebook post showing the schematic of what I built then tied it to the John Bell 6522 card. facebook.com/groups/5251478676/posts/10160679342848677
i love old computers!!
i am currently 5 minutes in trying to make SAM say the who,e bee movie script
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I will point the holy cross at the white spider demon
Somebody made a program for the Novation AppleCat modem (which had an 8 bit ADC on board) which used S.A.M. to make prank phone calls.
It was called "CAT CRANK CALLER" and had canned messages and a selections of voices.
One was called "old woman" and I remember it making calls with the script, "Help me, help me please! Help my baby! My baby is on fire! Help my baby!"
The AppleFax Modem was actually capable of playing digitized sound. The three main developers recorded themselves saying their first names and put the recordings in the firmware as an Easter egg. Unfortunately I haven't been able to find a video of someone demonstrating this, and this is perhaps due to the fact that it is a VERY rare thing.
I remember this from the Commodore 64, and also SAM’s revival (based on the C64 version) in Chipspeech
How does this software work anyway? Does it use some kind of wave-table playback where each phoneme is a sample and it strings them together in the right order to make words, or is it something more complex than that?
I haven't studied how it works. I'm just as baffled but I think your description is actually fairly accurate. I think there is a manual online describing how to program it
From what I've read about it, it involves mathematical wave transforms rather than audio samples, but apart from that it does work by concatenating allophones.
It is by technicality mathematic (not formant) synthesis
nice
Do you have schematics for your card?
it came out of a book. Here's my facebook post showing the schematic of what I built then tied it to the John Bell 6522 card.
facebook.com/groups/5251478676/posts/10160679342848677
oh yeah, then I had to disassemble the SAM driver and change it to the ports of my card. Not an easy task