rossum Posted August 1, 2020 Share Posted August 1, 2020 First attempt at a S.A.M./MacInTalk speech synthesizer for the 2600. Lmk if this is interesting or useful to anyone and I will spend some time to clean it up and create tooling to make it more usable. cheers sam2600.rom 18 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ZeroPage Homebrew Posted August 1, 2020 Share Posted August 1, 2020 (edited) This is amazing!! I remember playing around with S.A.M. so much back in the 80's on my C64. So much fun trying to get it to say things! I think this will be very useful, especially if you're able to package it so people can incorporate it into their own games. Or if you can implement it as an add in module for batari Basic somehow. I'll be showing this off on the next ZeroPage Homebrew Twitch stream on Tuesday! - James Edited August 1, 2020 by ZeroPage Homebrew 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+SpiceWare Posted August 1, 2020 Share Posted August 1, 2020 In only 4K!?!?! Impressive! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Andrew Davie Posted August 2, 2020 Share Posted August 2, 2020 Love it, but a bit hard for me to understand!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RevEng Posted August 2, 2020 Share Posted August 2, 2020 Epic!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoLand Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 Very impressive! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ZeroPage Homebrew Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 (edited) We'll be checking out S.A.M. 2600 on tomorrow's (Tue Aug 4) ZeroPage Homebrew stream LIVE on Twitch at 11AM PT | 2PM ET | 6PM GMT! Hope everyone can watch! Twitch Stream: https://www.twitch.tv/zeropagehomebrew/ Games: S.A.M. 2600 (2020 WIP) by @rossum Space Game 2K (2020) by Karl Garrison (@Karl G) Penult (2020 Exclusive WIP Update) by Karl Garrison (@Karl G) (SET VIDEO TO 1080P60 FOR FULL QUALITY) Edited August 6, 2020 by ZeroPage Homebrew Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 Very impressive. Can the white noise between the vowels be reduced? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rossum Posted August 4, 2020 Author Share Posted August 4, 2020 33 minutes ago, Thomas Jentzsch said: Very impressive. Can the white noise between the vowels be reduced? Yep. The unvoiced & fricative noise is a bit overwhelming at the moment, dialing it in with a slightly different method. cheers 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rossum Posted August 12, 2020 Author Share Posted August 12, 2020 Now with authoring tool and source code. Documentation in progress... https://rossumur.github.io/SAM2600/SAM2600.htm speech.inc SAM2600.a SAM2600.rom 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+grafixbmp Posted August 13, 2020 Share Posted August 13, 2020 (edited) Awesome the possibilities are near endless. Edited August 14, 2020 by grafixbmp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rossum Posted August 15, 2020 Author Share Posted August 15, 2020 On 8/1/2020 at 9:52 AM, ZeroPage Homebrew said: This is amazing!! I remember playing around with S.A.M. so much back in the 80's on my C64. So much fun trying to get it to say things! I think this will be very useful, especially if you're able to package it so people can incorporate it into their own games. Or if you can implement it as an add in module for batari Basic somehow. I'll be showing this off on the next ZeroPage Homebrew Twitch stream on Tuesday! - James History, Tools & Documentation now posted at https://rossumblog.com/2020/08/15/s-a-m-2600/,https://github.com/rossumur/SAM2600 cheers 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chewy Posted August 16, 2020 Share Posted August 16, 2020 dude thing this is pretty funny, when it starts making noises, lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonGrafx-16 Posted August 16, 2020 Share Posted August 16, 2020 (edited) It sounds a lot like Atari ST Speech... but not as understandable. Edited August 16, 2020 by DragonGrafx-16 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr SQL Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 On 8/15/2020 at 12:51 PM, rossum said: History, Tools & Documentation now posted at https://rossumblog.com/2020/08/15/s-a-m-2600/,https://github.com/rossumur/SAM2600 cheers Cool project! I liked your innovative research on your site delving into 1920's retro tech; the circuit bending example with the two oscillators. Amazing use of that pioneering technology in it's emergent state to create and apply those optimizations over SAM to get the footprint under 4k. Very interesting read! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PSTrooper Posted August 29, 2020 Share Posted August 29, 2020 Please continue to work on this! I could do so much with this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RevEng Posted August 29, 2020 Share Posted August 29, 2020 Heads up that this project was covered over at Hackaday. ? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xxl Posted August 30, 2020 Share Posted August 30, 2020 in 2011, Szuwarek presented the speech synthesis procedure on the Atari 2600. Here is an example. but the SAM one sounds so much better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaymanC Posted September 5, 2020 Share Posted September 5, 2020 On 8/1/2020 at 9:17 AM, rossum said: First attempt at a S.A.M./MacInTalk speech synthesizer for the 2600. Lmk if this is interesting or useful to anyone and I will spend some time to clean it up and create tooling to make it more usable. cheers sam2600.rom 4 kB · 111 downloads Hello, I wish to add voices to my new homebrew game Stratovox 2600. The game was made in batari Basic using the DPC+ kernel. I think that your speech synthesizer will be useful for that. Can you provide me some info of your software ? Let me know. Thanks Carlos RaymanC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted June 15, 2021 Share Posted June 15, 2021 Currently it works nice a stand alone ROM. But IMO an easy to include, well documented SAM2600 library would massively increase popularity. @rossum Are there any plans for this? Or can you give advice how to use you code within another program? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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