s-macke/SAM

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

SAM (Software Automatic Mouth) is a tiny text-to-speech synthesizer written in C, adapted from the 1982 Commodore 64 speech software. It includes a text-to-phoneme converter (reciter) and a phoneme-to-speech routine, outputting via SDL or to .wav files.

Use cases

• generate speech from text on embedded devices
• add retro robotic voice effects to a project
• convert text to wav audio files from the command line
• study how a classic 1980s speech synthesizer works
• make a C64-style talking program on modern platforms

When to choose

• you need an extremely small, dependency-light TTS engine
• you want the nostalgic retro robotic speech sound
• you need TTS that runs on embedded or resource-constrained hardware

When to avoid

• you need natural, modern-sounding speech synthesis
• you need a maintained library with a license and active development
• you need neural network-based TTS quality

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

tts speech-recognition audio-processing speech-processing embedded-systems windows cross-platform embedded cli text-to-speech retro-computing c64 phonemes reciter tiny-footprint wav-output sdl linux macos

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