SAM Software Automatic Mouth

What is SAM?

This is a vanilla Javascript 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

It includes a Text-To-Phoneme converter called reciter and a
Phoneme-To-Speech routine for the final output.

It aims for low memory impact and file size which is the reason I want
to avoid the
Emscripten conversion
by Stefan (which weights about 414kb).

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/ (russian)
or the google translated version
here.

Usage

Require the module via yarn: yarn add sam-js

Use it in your program:

``javascript
import SamJs from 'sam-js';

let sam = new SamJs();

// Play "Hello world" over the speaker.
// This returns a Promise resolving after playback has finished.
sam.speak('Hello world');

// Generate a wave file containing "Hello world" and download it.
sam.download('Hello world');

// Render the passed text as 8bit wave buffer array (Uint8Array).
const buf8 = sam.buf8('Hello world');

// Render the passed text as 32bit wave buffer array (Float32Array).
const buf32 = sam.buf32('Hello world');
`

$3

`
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
``

Original docs.

I have bundled a copy of the original manual in this repository, see
the manual file in the docs directory.

License

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.

Contact

If you have questions don' t hesitate to ask me. If you discovered some
new knowledge about the code please file an issue.