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Jun 1, 2020 55 min

ANTIC Interview 385 - Software Automatic Mouth: Mark Barton

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Software Automatic Mouth: Mark Barton Mark Barton was creator of SAM — Software Automatic Mouth. Released in 1982, SAM was the first software-only speech synthesizer for personal computers. It was available for the Apple II, Commodore 64, and Atari 8-bit computers. He later developed Macintalk, speech synthesis for the Macintosh computer; and narrator, the speech system for the Commodore Amiga. This interview took place on May 22, 2020. SAM Demo Disk Steve Jobs movie Steve Jobs introduces the Macintosh Peter Ladefoged at Wikipedia Peter Ladefoged at UCLA SAM in your browser Switched On Bach by Wendy Carlos Why Modern Digital Synthesis Is More Analog Than Analog by Mark Barton Mark's Soundcloud ANTIC Interview 124 - Jerry White, programmer of Poker SAM. and Chaterbee Bill Lange's deep dive into SAM ads and reviews

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