Etwas Zeit - Mikron 64
YouTube via kleenefotze.
mikron 64 - was ich weiss
YouTube via ketukaru. Two favorites of convoythecat. Was the C64 capable of speech synthesis?
Thursday, June 21, 2007
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Yes, the C64 could do speech synthesis.
ReplyDeleteOne generalized program was called "SAM" (Software Automatic Mouth). It was also available for the Apple II. Here's a URL to a sample: http://www.vectronicsappleworld.com/audio/wish.aif
The C64 version sounds a bit smoother.
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This post's video opens up with a game, Mission Impossible, which has a few (god they took long to load) samples. Here's a youtube of the actual game without a song on top:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrViE9zT1wg
The samples are pretty good huh!
Here you find the SW and some documentation:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.members.tripod.com/the-cbm-files/speak/
Here is SAM in action:
http://www.colmer.info/c64/sound3.swf
Georg.
AWESOME. i love the old 8 bit and 16 bit computer musix.. trackers. and c64 and atari 800. whoo. luv it. luv it..
ReplyDeleteThe game is Space Taxi and, yes, there were speech samples. The intonation of the voices you hear in Space Taxi couldn't possibly be synthesized--they're quite natural-sounding and grainy.
ReplyDeleteMy sister and I were hooked on Space Taxi! Tremendously fun and frustrating.
(Cave of the Word Wizard, on the other hand, used SAM AFAIK...)
A lot of the computers of the day could do speech synthesis... I even had a program that could do speech synthesis from the peizoelectric speaker on an old 8088 PC. It is simply a matter of generating phonemes in sequence (even if the phonemes is simply a sin wave and white noise). I have even see people do speech synthesis on an sampler, by sequencing recorded phonemes.
ReplyDeleteBut I don't believe the C64 had a dedicated speech chip, like some computers of the era had. It had to generate each phoneme with a sound created by the SID chip.
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ReplyDeletethe SID chip can playback sampled audio on it's 4th channel.
ReplyDeleteIt wasn't used very much but can be heard in games like Outrun and Master Blaster. I didn't play Space Taxi, but I'm sure any game that had talking was probably sampled audio and not a speech synthesis software program running at the same time as the game.