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https://github.com/OpenVoiceOS/ovos-tts-plugin-SAM
S.A.M - Software Automatic Mouth
https://github.com/OpenVoiceOS/ovos-tts-plugin-SAM
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S.A.M - Software Automatic Mouth
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/OpenVoiceOS/ovos-tts-plugin-SAM
- Owner: OpenVoiceOS
- Created: 2021-09-23T19:57:38.000Z (about 3 years ago)
- Default Branch: dev
- Last Pushed: 2022-10-23T22:39:21.000Z (almost 2 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-05-10T00:12:16.551Z (5 months ago)
- Language: Python
- Size: 25.4 KB
- Stars: 0
- Watchers: 6
- Forks: 1
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: readme.md
Awesome Lists containing this project
- awesome-ovos-plugins - ovos-tts-plugin-SAM
README
## Description
OpenVoiceOS TTS plugin for S.A.M - 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.).
A description can be found in the original manual at http://www.retrobits.net/atari/sam.shtml or in the manual of the equivalent Apple II program http://www.apple-iigs.info/newdoc/sam.pdf
## Install
```bash
pip install ovos-tts-plugin-SAM
```
## Configuration
```json
"tts": {
"module": "ovos-tts-plugin-SAM"
}
```
Some typical values written in the original manual are:
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
```json
"tts": {
"module": "ovos-tts-plugin-SAM",
"ovos-tts-plugin-SAM": {
"voice": "stuffy guy"
}
}
```
# License
The software is a [reverse-engineered version](https://github.com/vidarh/SAM) 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.
## Docker
build it
```bash
docker build . -t ovos/sam
```
run it
```bash
docker run -p 8080:9666 ovos/sam
```
use it `http://localhost:8080/synthesize/hello`