ANTIC Interview 385 - Software Automatic Mouth: Mark Barton

Published: June 1, 2020, 4 p.m.

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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.

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