Sam is a very small Text-To-Speech (TTS) program written in C, that runs on most popular platforms. It is an adaption to C of the speech software SAM (Software Automatic Mouth) for the Commodore C64 ...

Nevertheless, computer manufacturers didn’t want to miss out on the hype and speech synthesizers became a relatively common add-on for a typical home computer. Those add-ons were usually built ...

Philhower] who ported the retro speech synthesis software known as SAM from assembly to C which ... the computer’s audio as well as the speech synthesizer’s. Finally, a serial command ...