ANTIC Interview 385 - Software Automatic Mouth: Mark Barton
Software Automatic Mouth: Mark Barton
Mark Barton was creator of SAM \u2014 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
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