# HOW TO EDIT THIS FILE: # The "handy ruler" below makes it easier to edit a package description. # Line up the first '|' above the ':' following the base package name, and # the '|' on the right side marks the last column you can put a character in. # You must make exactly 11 lines for the formatting to be correct. It's also # customary to leave one space after the ':' except on otherwise blank lines. |-----handy-ruler------------------------------------------------------| SAM: SAM (Software Automatic Mouth) SAM: SAM: Sam is a very small Text-To-Speech (TTS) program written in C, that SAM: runs on most popular platforms. SAM: It is an adaption to C of the speech software SAM (Software Automatic SAM: Mouth) for the Commodore C64 published in the year 1982 by Don't Ask SAM: Software (now SoftVoice, Inc.). SAM: It includes a Text-To-Phoneme converter called reciter and a SAM: Phoneme-To-Speech routine for the final output. SAM: It is so small that it will work also on embedded computers. SAM: