How Speech Synthesizers Work

[@Steve-zw5bs]

Replace the car record with the see and say record! *Opens door* "The cow says moo!"

[@chunye215]

shut up and take my money!

[@notmuch_23]

That would be an _excellent_ prank!

[@Esth.1]

Omg I want this

[@tactileslut]

Ahh old tech. I remember swapping the records between my sister's laugh and cry doll and my neighbors soldier.

[@AmyraCarter]

I so wanna see video of this if anyone ever does it, lmfao

[@charredsteak6367]

8:04 *The rooster says... *demon screeching sounds**

[@DappieKS80]

Creeper_Playz says the Sound Garden Fan!

[@ErikvanderKolk]

But what does the fox say?

[@darqv9358]

@@ErikvanderKolk ...go home.

[@JaguarFiend]

So you could sort of "turn table" these tracks a little bit by just controlling the rate with your hand on the spinning arrow. You could make them go slow or in reverse. That's where the real good demonic stuff's at....

[@RF-Ataraxia]

The rooster says... [dog abuse]

[@Rednax35]

Some of those speech synthesiser voices are nightmare fuel.

[@adventureoflinkmk2]

Yeah like the CD/EBS/EAS voices for a start...

[@morphman86]

What came before them were even worse. You heard a bit of the Voder there at the end, but at that time there were a few other versions that were pure nightmare fuel.

[@TiegonBerry]

Faith used them extremely well.

[@savage1267]

This.

[@johnq4951]

The voder is the worst

[@OGEdgyUsername]

Who would win: -The most advanced voice synthesizer at the time -Hermione Granger

[@alduin240]

Actually the synthesizer pronounced it right... in french x)

[@S.M.Jean-Mahmoud_Ier]

@@alduin240 and knowing that Hermione is a french name...

[@gavinthecrafter]

hERMY oNE gRAAAANGER.

[@S.M.Jean-Mahmoud_Ier]

@AlexH27 that's actually how to say her name the correct way

[@Ro_Gaming]

*haarrrmeeneee grraaannnggggeerrr*

[@tammijatti9164]

I’m blind and I’m using voiceover on my phone right now. Or I should say, I’m using dictation at this moment, and then I will use voice over after I’m done. This is fascinating! I’ve been using synthesized speech in conjunction with screen readers since I was about five years old. A lot has changed.

[@Kai_On_Paws_4298]

I hope you're doing okay right now

[@tammijatti9164]

@@Kai_On_Paws_4298 I am. I hope you’re doing fine too.

[@ChairmanMeow1]

I think its so awesome you are blind and still using KZbin to listen to things and interact with people!!

[@jumbledfox2098]

@@ChairmanMeow1 I agree, Its incredible how accessible things are nowadays

[@ajddavid452]

​@@ChairmanMeow1there's multiple blind KZbin content creators like Tommy Edison

[@leonkernan]

First you get him pressure washing records, now you're prank calling him... Poor Techmoan :-)

[@AmyraCarter]

That right there, was a YTP in itself, lolz

[@Uncleharkinian]

have you seen the 8bit guy tech moan memes where david is constantly pestering him! check it out then you will know

[@adamiotime]

You have selected Microsoft Sam as the computer default voice

[@ventrue6516]

I still got the program

[@Wil-c0r]

I used to have so much fun when I was younger playing with the tempo of speech of Microsoft Sam lol ... Thanks for the nostalgic moment!

[@mosti72]

Soy soy soy soy soy soy soy soy soy soy soy soy soy soy soy soy soy soy soy soy soy soy soy soy soy soy soy soy soy soy soy soy Edit: Dammit Gboard.

[@buckprivate8177]

That was my favourite part of Windows XP, not gonna lie.

[@tsope1]

you still got it i windows 10, just go to start> all apps >windows ease of access> narrator

[@Yukiyonova]

2020: Speech progam pack 1900: Speech progam *PAK*

[@kayleyisdisturbing8990]

Woah the founding fathers really enjoyed those *PAKS* .

[@firstnameiskowitz8493]

P R O G A M

[@lambybunny7173]

@@kayleyisdisturbing8990 the founding fathers were the 1700s so sadly they weren’t able to enjoy the PAKs :( however, Theodore Roosevelt sure did!

[@MichaelAStanhope]

Great video. Laughed at the techmoan cameo! Funny stuff right there!

[@pokepress]

Mike's Mac Shack I wonder if it was inspired by the YTP folks have made with content from the channels.

[@jason_a_smith_gb]

Mike's Mac Shack Brilliant acting by Techmoan there... Slight tease in his last video too at 8-Bit Guy’s channel. All in good fun... kzbin.info/www/bejne/e3zPZ2CcpbxqldE

[@bbs001gaming7]

the sam synthesizer sounds almost exactly like that one horror game called FAITH, I am also just realizing that the game tried to mimic what commodore 64 games looked like

[@austinhicken2530]

Because it is the exact same sound

[@theheavy6430]

Also trollge

[@Deezboyofficial]

@@theheavy6430 no.

[@theheavy6430]

@@Deezboyofficial yes

[@MossSolarisBright]

I think it's cause it was heavily inspired by the games of that time period! And I also recognized it from there too. Good game!

[@stanky4369]

14:30 “come out and see the sun, the surface is now safe and everything is beautiful”

[@cYObEL]

what

[@jcke-2143]

Trollge

[@legalizerapingrussianbroad8299]

Russia can’t even afford to feed its troops; they honestly eat ONE MEAL every 3 days if they are •in• combat and only twice a week when they are not in combat! Yes, Russian military members eat only two MEALS every seven days when they are not fighting! Not two as in breakfast, lunch and dinner for two days but only two servings of food COMBINED! Those two Russian “meals” are one cracker and 64 grams (half cup) of unflavored oatmeal! That is a lightweight breakfast snack in NATO but for Russia that is their entire meal that is supposed to last them three entire days! THREE WHOLE DAYS! I am not joking nor exaggerating! Russia puts on a show on the world stage but in reality, they are a washed up ex-superpower on it’s knees about to collapse, AGAIN! They were NEVER a super power country to begin with; they have been living in the shadows of the United States since before the age of timeso technically they can’t be washed up because they were never there to begin with and the good people of America need to expose these fake Russians for whom they are. America should invade Russia, seize their oil and timber industries and use Russia as their garbage dump.

[@absolutebastardhours4404]

@@legalizerapingrussianbroad8299 Epic trolling man, well done. I truly believe you are being honest especially because you created your channel 2 weeks ago.

[@theheavy6430]

@@jcke-2143 I thought SCP-001 “When Day Breaks”

[@ninjasiren]

Now you can also do singing synthesizer, like the Vocaloid software.

[@WiktoriaSzalaty]

Yeees! I want episode about Vocaloid #MakeVocaloidGreatAgain

[@dexterthecat0271]

Yesssss I hope he can cover Defoko! She's the default UTAU and is entirely computer generated (no human vocals whatsoever)!

[@benswallow5753]

Great to see a video of mikus great grandparents

[@cmpvariety1764]

Or dectalk I love hearing dectalk sing,I've tried to learn how to do it but every time I do it it crashes. I must be typing in the code wrong.

[@dexterthecat0271]

@@manoerinafanchannel3196 ah, darn. I must have heard wrong ;w; Thanks for letting me know!

[@horseenthusiast9903]

Oh, this is great! My dad used to have a speech synthesiser on the computer when my brother and I were little, and would like to say to my brother, “The computer wants to speak to you” before having it say stuff like “Clean your room, Boogerboy” (that was one of my brother’s least favourite nicknames).

[@erik7647]

That's awful

[@DBWave94]

So your dad used his computer to bully your brother? And that's great?

[@jumbledfox2098]

that's hilarious hahahah

[@lugui]

BEEEEE SEVENTEEN BALLMERR

[@memebrother7083]

GERSTBERSTERSS

[@MickeyD2012]

I LOVE THIS COMPANY!!!

[@BigOlSmellyFlashlight]

mattel electronics presents BEEEEEEEEEEEE SEVENTEEEEEEN BOAAOAOAOAOAOOAMBER

[@leepinlepin]

@@roberte2945 it won't be easy

[@Karmy.]

DUH COAD DAH COUD FIGGER OT DEH COED

[@Internationale7]

Now I want to see someone replace the internal talking record for a 1980’s car with one from a See N Say

[@brickman409]

yesssss

[@bourdonbt]

"Why does your car Moooooooo?" "Fuck, I forgot my keys" LOL

[@PandaXs1]

@@bourdonbt "The duck says quack" "Yeah I know the door is open, shut up car"

[@MasonMouse]

"You just hit a cow. Mooooo."

[@blackhawks81H]

"The cat says, meow".... DAMN IT, that's gonna be expensive.

[@MIO9_sh]

14:30 Where dubstep wubs happen

[@tsakeboya]

Oh hi mio

[@suv44n]

69 likes *nice*

[@novictim]

Look up The Infinity Project I am Feeling Very Weird at 2:53 It has a small bridge of bass "drop" or rather line where it's the low end c63 voicee

[@chunkycat1298]

@Gabriel Howell hell yea

[@pistonhead2k]

@ExDeeXD Music Thath ExDeeXD

[@cs188]

Were you inspired by the YTPs made of yourself and Techmoan for that prank call segment? Amazing.

[@charredsteak6367]

When is the next YTP?

[@ImaginationMeme]

Yo it's my man CS188, if you are wondering a few weeks ago he made a livestream making a YTP of the Galaxy Flip keynote

[@nrdesign1991]

You're everywhere, too, right?

[@Swixels]

hey

[@CaveyMoth]

I always read your name in Obama's voice, cs188!

Kraftwerk got me into using SAM for my 80s electro tracks.

[@djdigital3806]

80's electro #1

[@hibikimaiku]

Hell yeah!

[@dr.quackenbacker5247]

Я твои слуга, Я твои работник

[@simonzinc-trumpetharris852]

Computer World uses S&S extensively.

[@CivilNormaal]

@@simonzinc-trumpetharris852 What is S&S ? Sorry if it is in the video, I watched it some days ago but still have the tab open but too lazy to watch it again

[@obsoletegeek]

"SAY" on the Amiga provided hours of entertainment in the late 80s.

[@stevethepocket]

Asterisk asterisk asterisk yoooooyooyooyooyooyooyooyooyooo

[@MeneGR]

Yes, I was hoping for a mention!

[@DForce26]

Yup..nothing about that...Sad

[@madfinntech]

Indeed. We laughed our butts of the thing trying to pronounce Finnish words!

[@gentlepersuader]

Yep. Used to put in nonsensical words that it would try and pronounce, as long as you placed in a vowel, otherwise it would recite the individual letters! And three full stops gave you "and so on". So ........................... would give you many "and so on's."

[@supersungal2]

I struggle with reading huge blocks of text, and that Natural Readers program you used near the end actually made my life so much easier in school, as I'd use it to listen to assignments and readings for school as well as look at them. It's crazy to see how far speech synthesis has come.

[@MrEp5]

5:48 I was waiting for it to say "it's in the game".

[@AetharWolf]

Same.

[@TabbyEgg312]

it kinda sounds like the first ea sports intro

[@gooodels]

Nice Aphex profile picture

[@MrEp5]

@@gooodels cheers XD much love, have a nice day now

[@eva-nf9fl]

I'm waiting for the Speak n Spell to say "L. I. M. P. Say it. Discover." xD

[@THX-vx8vm]

Gotta love the8bitguy Techmoan crossovers.

[@aveaoz]

The YTP was canon all along.

[@billkeithchannel]

I found _Nostalgia Nerd_ first, then _Technology Connections_ before finding _Techmoan._ That chain eventually led me to *The 8-Bit Guy* with stops at _The Gaming Historian_ from time to time.

[@SquidwardBowlingBalls]

The Intellivision part reminded me of the AVGN review of the synthesizer, "BEEEEEE SEVENTEEEEN BOHMBERRRRRRRR".

[@Chaos89P]

"BEE SZEVENTEEN BAWMBER"!

[@adventureoflinkmk2]

They'll never do it in time! The code the code, figure out the code!! Uhh... what? I gotta diffuse this bomb! It won't be easy! Replace this fourth, this first, this third, this second. OSHIT OSHIT!!! OH GAAAAAAAAH!!! **KABOOOOM**

[@masteradvance]

I was looking for this comment!! hahaha

[@adam1984pl]

I would love to see AVGN and David video .

[@madfinntech]

Yeah.

[@bradrules49]

The buildup to real voice synthesizers had me at the edge of my seat

[@TheMrRuttazzo]

16:24 *eEEh tHerE TecHMOAn! Oy jUst KeLL dOo DeLL U daD yOR YOOtoOb ChanNL eEs toAdL cRaaAp!* Cracked me up quite hard. xD

[@FerroequinologistofColorado]

Thank you for this time stamp I can’t stop rewatching it

[@mohammedelsheikh5342]

Specially the "craaap" segment 😂😂

[@NynnaOnYT9]

LOL

[@blankpage9277]

When I was a kid Bonzi Buddy fascinated me for the same reason. You could make him say anything and that alone provided hours of entertainment to my young mind.

[@michaelopnv634]

Mattel Electronics presents: BEEEE SEAVONTEEN BAWLLMER.

[@superdoom1unrevealed231]

?

[@boa_firebrand]

@@superdoom1unrevealed231 AVGN reference. he did a video that included the, I believe, intellivoice

[@chillpenguin9578]

@@boa_firebrand intellivision

[@BTiffney71]

Mattel Electronics presents: DESTROY ALL HOOMANS

[@CaveyMoth]

GHERSBERSTERRRRRRR

[@darinsmith9468]

The phonograph mechanism from the see-n-say, if I recall correctly, originated in the Chatty Cathy doll. It got re-used over and over in a massive number of products. In Chatty Cathy, the entry groove selection was somewhat randomized by the string pull / spring mechanism. See-n-say was a refinement to that & as you showed, it made it all the way to automotive tech.

[@NathanRichHotpot]

All your videos are alike - I don't care about the title but I click it because it brings back some memory. Then I watch the entire thing, impressed by the video. Good work.

[@diggerszhang]

You know what's more impressive? Of course 火锅大王 XD

[@mcat8744]

Fan passed by.

[@crazilynoobz]

@@diggerszhang Tiananmen Square

[@diggerszhang]

@@crazilynoobz Hahahah, funny that you'd say it here

[@crazilynoobz]

@@diggerszhang yeah i just wanna point out he's selling out to the ccp

[@daxxx310]

I was so hoping for “BEE SHEVENTEEN BOWMBER”

[@kindaashitpost4290]

Well at least we got BOM SQUOD

[@AnUnseenRuler]

“Flack”

[@rzna.]

SAME

[@rzna.]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/f3vMXq2nZdeDd8k

[@aidin5177]

Memories I didn't even know I had 😂😂

[@Celcius1]

Nice Techmoan cameo

[@emir0721]

@Timothy Honiss 15:55

[@guspolly]

Nice touch that he starts by dialing 01144 which is the callout code from the US to the UK.

[@jondoglegs7124]

Flippin' idiot :) glares at phone

[@ericsills6484]

Yeah, it didn't show him dialing the whole number, but I wonder if he did actually call Mat in England...or if he has actually talked to him on the phone at any time. Seems like it would cost a pretty penny.

[@tonyellen_]

Truly enjoyed that.

[@SouthyTR]

There is something I like with S.A.M’s voice that I can’t stop listening.

[@cac_deadlyrang]

MORTIS

[@TheLoooneChipmunks]

Love the Techmoan collab! Are you baiting the YTPs who keep the faux-feud going between you two?

[@wendyokoopa7048]

I think so.

[@RAMChYLD]

I'd believe it. They did both express amusement at the YTP videos.

[@wendyokoopa7048]

@@RAMChYLD what can you do people are dumb?

[@DoomRater]

Someone needs to take that feud and turn it into a video game.

[@falapu04]

Patrick Courreges Waiting for that!

[@andriealinsangao613]

I laughed so hard at Techmoan's prank call!

[@user-vn7ce5ig1z]

It's a reference to some KZbin-Poops that TerriblePerson made: kzbin.info/door/MgZV74ir2PfQChBH_gkWjQvideos (and spin-offs that others made kzbin.info?search_query=8-bit+guy+techmoan ).

[@catfish552]

Typing out a prank call to Techmoan - pretty good. Actually getting him to film a clip for it - perfect!

[@TheBaldr]

This battle may be over, but the war has just begun.

[@andriealinsangao613]

@@TheBaldr Noice!

[@latebloomer2]

Flippin eck!

[@LaskyLabs]

Ah man, you don't have BEEE SEVENTEEEN BOOMMMBERRRRR!!! But bomb squad is fun tho.

[@Suralin0]

Bee sheventeen baawwwmer...

[@LaskyLabs]

@@Suralin0 THE CODE THE CODE! FIGURE OUT THE CODE! I guess I gotta defuse the bomb?! Uh...

[@serraramayfield9230]

@@LaskyLabs If only he had used the AVGN clip

[@Chaos89P]

𝙸𝚃 𝚆𝙾𝙽'𝚃 𝙱𝙴 𝙴𝙰𝚂𝚈!

[@MidoseitoAkage]

AVGN : BUUEEEE SHUVENTEEN BUMBEEEEER !

[@moonfiend9259]

Really appreciate your videos! I grew up in the 80's-90's and didn't really realize my interest in computers in general until I was older. You're like a technology historian :) Looking forward to watching your other videos

[@FairPlay137]

The talking cars actually came in two possible technologies: Tech similar to the Speak-and-Spell (Electronic), and tech similar to the See-and-Say (Analog)

[@hakemon]

Yep. And the example that said "Don't forget to take your keys." was actually an electronic one, using the same chip as the Speak and Spell.

[@WillieWonka928D]

Yup! The one in the car was the electronic one used in some Chrysler and GM cars and the analog record was used mostly in Nissans, all in the 1980s.

[@ScrublordYT]

You forgot the best one B 17 BOOOOOOOOMBBEEEERRRRRRRR

[@Howchoo]

attackquack I distinctly remember it sounding like there was an L in there: B 17 BAAAAALLLLLLLLLLMRRRRRRR

[@silkwesir1444]

howchoo I'd say more like "Bowmer", however it'll vary from person to person how they interpret the sounds. (think yanny/laurel)

[@wareforcoin5780]

BEEEEE SEVAAAAHHHNNNNTEEEEENNNNN BOOAAAAAAOOOOMMMMMEEEERRRRRRRRRRR

[@expendableround6186]

You are aware he doesn’t have it, right?

[@MrFreddy123]

BEYYYYY SEVENTEEEN BAWWWWMMBER

[@tafellappen8551]

“When we were ten years old” i knew people in high school that would loose their shit from doing that kind of stuff with the google text to speech things lol

[@TheEGames]

I read that at the same time he said that.

[@leahcornelius]

The E Games same wtf 🤣🤣

[@SlyHikari03]

Same,

[@supersungal2]

Kids in my middle school had to be physically stopped from making the terminal on the macs say swear words

[@terminator572]

I do it all the time at work when I'm bored lmao

[@astro.mp3348]

Today I learned: everything is the equivalent to a see and say

[@ThatOneGirlThatPlays]

About the Intellivision speech synthesis, you forgot "B-17 Bomber" aka "Beee sevuhnteeen baaaaahmurrr" lol

[@w4drone720]

Yo finnaly a cinemassicre reference

[@rodmunch69]

"Techmoan, do you have 10 pound balls"... "how do you walk..."

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

Long Distance FTW!

[@robertgaines-tulsa]

I wonder how much it costs to crank yank Britain from the United States?

[@fplovarthlovar5173]

14:15 finally know from where the voice clips in "FAITH" are from

[@liamwolfieruby]

MORTIS

[@bazga4069]

Thats why i looked in the comments

[@Joink05]

I KNEW I HEARD THAT SOMEWHERE!

[@Mihaugoku]

Was about to say this.

[@Not_Ciel]

That's exactly what I thought as well XD

[@SpaceCakeism]

A while back, I played around a bit, with a Japanese voice synth; (Vocaloid) however, as the Japanese language is mostly spoken in syllables, the synth's system is based on syllables, rather than vowels and consonants.

[@nickyturnerwastaken]

vocaloid is a great software for many reasons, including accessibility. for japanese beginners or people who get a grasp of hiragana or romaji/romanized japanese syllables and wanna make a cover or original song in the japanese language (or any language. ive seen people use the japanese voice databases for multilingual songs many times and it is interesting! it isnt just limited to japanese if you can get it to sound right.), inputing the syllables are easy for them due to how vocaloid seperates japanese syllables in a really easy way. i enjoy it too. :3

[@5ucur]

It's great, but made for singing. Doesn't produce natural sounding speech - maybe, if you tweaked a lot of settings. There are similar programs made for speech specifically.

[@chills_tiny_mom]

⁠@@5ucurI’m quite interested which programs are made for speech?

[@5ucur]

@@chills_tiny_mom Voiceroid, Voicepeak, & Voicevox come to mind, and there are probably others, too. Voiceroid has some familiar characters' voices avaliable, such as Yuzuki Yukari and Tsurumaki Maki (i.e. I don't recognise any of the other two softwares' characters from anywhere else). And like singing synths can be tweaked to produce some sort of speech, these speech synths can be tweaked to produce some sort of singing (or rapping, probably with fewer tweaks). At least, I've read about this being possible with Voiceroid; I don't know about the other two. Quick edit: Oh and there's also CeVIO, which among other voices has IA & ONE from the Aria On The Planetes project, as well as - apparently - also Yuzuki Yukari and Tsurumaki Maki.

[@chills_tiny_mom]

@@5ucur thx for the quick response 😇 damn why didn’t I think of voiceroid I knew what that is 😭 also yes I have tried to tune singing synths on vocaloid to sound like they’re talking but it gets quite hard 😅 and yeah yukari is on cevio

[@BritishGeekGuy]

14:24 Bonzi Buddy's For The Commodore 64!

[@sink899]

Expand dong

[@synqFPS]

hi there expand dong

[@familiarbreakfast1892]

@@jeltesmit7255 why

[@familiarbreakfast1892]

@@jeltesmit7255 kzbin.info/www/bejne/rXXcnYybo659i7M

[@SONICBOOM1889]

Hello, Expand Dong

[@aenoymotors]

So, that old Chrysler you showed actually uses a Texas Instrument chipset that's very closely related to the Speak n spell. GM used a similar unit as well. That record player one is from the pre-1984 Nissans. The later Nissan ones actually used digital samples to play the messages, so it was an electronic version of that little record. There were also various other 80's cars from Germany, France, and Japan that used different kinds of speech synthesis but I don't have much information on them because I have been unsuccessful in finding them.

[@peshozmiata]

There's the digital talking dashboard on the Audi Quattro - /watch?v=-6YV5rxzxXY And the english version - /watch?v=P88AnM3z_wI

[@mycosys]

He also utterly fuxed everything about the TI system - it actually models a voice box and what is on the ROMs is modelling data, the equivalent of a voice on a normal synth. I am guessing he didnt know the difference between LPC speech synthesis and LPCM wavefile audio. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_predictive_coding

In France, there's been for exemple an option on some Renault 25s that provided speech for some functions.

[@skylinefever]

I have a difficult time believing the 1985 Maxima used a digital voice. It didn't sound like and old chain smoker.

[@blitzroehre1807]

@@peshozmiata The Quattro I had was fitted with a small dictaphone size cassette mechanism which qued up to the message, then played it and rewound, different cassettes gave different languages.

[@NathanCorleone]

14:59 when you only get 17 laps on the fitness gram Pace Test

[@MastaGambit]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[@adaptiveplexus]

What's the game on 15:00? I have been looking for it for years but don't know what system or the name. Thanks

[@skittstuff]

I can assure you that I'm 19 and my brother and I still lose our minds making robots curse. It never gets old!

[@MrOrthopedia]

I make Google voice say"Mary had a big fat ass."

[@whitslack]

I indeed derived hours of entertainment from making SAM say all sorts of ridiculous things on my Commodore 64 as a kid. Its phonics rules were atrocious, so the challenge was to figure out a phonetic spelling that would make it say what you wanted it to say correctly.

[@chris-do]

And it was even a bigger challenge to let SAM speak in a other language like mine is :-) I remember how i used many tricks.

[@thiesenf]

I got SAM to speak Swedish... but the text to make that happen wasn't readable in any language at all

[@chris-do]

@@thiesenf i believe that :D

[@Coolshows101]

Could it say soi?

[@sypialnia_studio]

Making these speech synthesizers speak in Polish was a great fun, especially that I didn't speak English back then, so figuring out how to use letters so they sound like my language felt like coding.

[@mattevans4438]

Back in 1984, I built my own speech synthesizer based off the SPO256 for my Atari 800. I got the PCB design and code from ANTIC magazine. Etched my own PCB. I got the SPO256 and other parts from Radio Shack.

[@Johnny555_Arcaea_charter]

why doesn't this have any replies? that's really impressive!

[@NynnaOnYT9]

O

[@tookitogo]

Sorry, but the TI stuff was true speech synthesis. It did NOT play back recordings of words. It played series of speech sound commands. It just doesn’t have a “plain English”-to-speech-sound-commands converter. So the extra ROMs simply added these mappings. (And provided an extra revenue source.) It’s very similar to the VODER. One can think of the mappings of speech sound commands as being “sheet music” for the VODER player.

[@Gabrol]

sorry, what is the "TI stuff" that you speak of?

[@RothmanHarv]

@@Gabrol Texas Instruments - things like the Speak and Spell.

[@Gabrol]

aren't the "speech sound commands" pre recorded by a person, like many TTS nowadays?

[@tsites1]

@@Gabrol No, they where more like stringing together phonemes. You could technically have built a text to speech synthesizer with one, but the technology at the time was primarily restricted by the many ways given letters are pronounced in different words such that the look up tables would have been huge The processing power available was too low and data base would have been too large to be practical in consumer applications. Therefore given words were analyzed to determine the proper sequence of the phonetic parts of a word. and those pieces were strung together in code. The device also could determine on its own how to blend the phonetics together so the words were more fluid and natural. This was something I think they called 'linear predictive encoding' which allowed it to sound more natural than starting with recordings of people pronouncing a bunch of phonemes and then trying to string them together. The TI chip did not depend at all on any prerecorded sounds or words. You could technically have taken the phonetic representation of a word from a dictionary and used that to code a fairly accurate sounding word (though there was a little more to it than simple common phonetic definitions). I actually worked at TI with the people who had developed the Speak-and-Spell. The synthesis was done on a special speech chip, but the control of the system was a simple 4-bit TMS1000 microprocessor.

[@Gabrol]

@@tsites1 so the phonemes are synthesized, like the voder?

[@danman32]

I had S.A.M for my Atari 800 when I was a teen in high school. You could give it phonetic codes for further tuning what you wanted to say and even how to say it such as speech inflection.

[@smrts]

the pronunciation quirks around the 12 minute mark are why if you see quotes from Stephen Hawking that aren't corrected for spelling, some words are intentionally spelled incorrectly so the voice box he had would sound correct saying them.

[@bruhhelp7396]

Really? Cool!

[@covoeus]

13:48 *MORTIS*

[@babymitochondria]

OUT DEMON

[@MCistheOG]

YESSSSSS

[@RealVidjag]

I watch jacksepticeye play it

[@user-ek9dd1cc2b]

𝘼 𝙜𝙪𝙣 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙗𝙪𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙩.

[@lotepamera9271]

I HEARD A DOOR OPEN UPSTAIRS.

[@bredmond812]

David, I am a huge fan of your work. I dropped everything the second i was notified of your video. But i dont think the word you want is "allophones". Allophones are not the basic sound unit. Phonemes are the basic sound unit. Allophones are sounds in any given language that natives see as the same sound, but they might be distinct in another language. For example, the p in pin is not the same as the p in spin, even though we would all think it is. the p in spin is said with a puff of air, and apparently that makes a difference in other languages, so we would say they are allophones in english.

[@talideon]

That's not really Dave's fault: he was just quoting the manual that came with the device. Still, what we're dealing with here is a bit lower-level than phonology, is actually _formants_.

[@bredmond812]

@@talideon cool! Can you elaborate on formants and how they are being used?

[@doigt6590]

As a Canadian, I was very confused since to us, it means someone who speaks neither English nor French.

[@bluesailormercury]

@@talideon Isn't it phones? Those are the unit of phonetics.

[@Kris_M]

If I say spin and pin, it is with pin you get a puff of air, not spin. It adds an H to the sound.

[@swesleyc7]

Phonograph mechanics just blows my mind. It's simple in comparison to today but how innovative we can capture sound physically.

[@danfred7127]

@15:32 "When we were 10 year old kids...the favorite thing we liked to do with them was to make them say dirty words." Yeah, when we were 10 we liked that...and then we stopped, and haven't liked it since. No way it's our favorite thing to do at 36. No, just when we were 10... right guys?

[@mickmickymick6927]

Actually I'm 37

[@mumeihozumi8458]

I still make mine say dirty words

[@craigandrew6409]

I was 12

[@harzfier]

Today I let Google translator say dirty words (sometimes). I'm 41 years old.

[@thomastommy9864]

My brother and I called a radio station once with Sbatso, spelled wrong it was the speech synthesis for the Sound Blaster sound card, and we asked the DJ to play a song. The guy said, "I'll see what I can do man." :) If he only knew what he just talked to. :)

[@juansaldana7595]

" BEEEEE SEVUNTEEEEN BAWMERRR" -intellivoice

[@Esth.1]

YES haha I was looking for this comment

[@Mrcantfapenough]

Beat me to it

[@Karmy.]

METTEL ELEKTRONIKS PREZENTS BAWMB SKWAD

[@munnsie100]

That’s been stuck in my head for years... takes me right back to the AVGN days! 😂

[@wardrich]

Came here for this. Wasn't disappointed

[@Kimbalhota]

5:48 "EA Sports, It's in the game", I was waiting for it.

[@nixel1324]

Capital E, capital A, capital _SPORTS_

[@bradenpotts]

Same

[@coondogtheman]

Put it in exactly like this and it says it perfect. E Ay Sports, It's in the game

[@glenngriffon8032]

@@coondogtheman with the way the guy says it it's more like "sin the game"

[@UndercoverDog]

1990: Speech Synthesizer 2023: AI Voice Lol

[@lordskeletorde]

I love the melody of the speech synthesizer's prank call: "Hello Techmooooan ... total craaaaap!" It really sounded like it meant it xD

[@Wordsnwood]

Poor Hermy-own. She always gets picked on...

[@Vladimir_Kv]

Well, original Greek pronunciation is _[ER ME O NEE]._ Adopted into English it became _[HER MY KNEE]._

[@thewhitefalcon8539]

hermy-one.

[@Alexander_l322]

Her-my-on-ne

[@jwhite5008]

My native language is not English, and I am not into movies or a fan of Potter, so I was actually as mistaken as the synthesizers - totally though her name sounded "Herr-mi-on" all those years. (so that part of the video didn't immediately make sense to me)

[@lucpower777]

@@jwhite5008 It's Herr-mi-on in french.

[@kbhasi]

16:18 OMG ACTUAL TECHMOAN CAMEO WHILE HE WAS EDITING HIS "other methods of cleaning records" VIDEO!

[@Dracopol]

Techmoan is boss, I don't know why 8-Bit Guy hurts him so.

[@cipherthedemonlord8057]

That was hilarious

[@HeretixAevum]

I look forward to all of the YTP videos that clip will end up in

[@yejavu2268]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/l523n2mgZalrpqs

[@ButchLising]

It was actually pretty good! The cameo is spot on!

[@artemisDev]

Vocaloid is the peak of voice synthesizers

[@holdthatlforluigi]

Allophones aren't really the "building blocks of speech" Phonemes are, and allophones are variations of a single phoneme with in a language (not as in dialectal variation, but as in variation based on phonetic context) For example, most speakers of American English say "h" quite differently in the words "huge" and "whole," although they may never notice. This means that the phoneme "h" in American English has (at least) two allophones.

[@FlameRat_YehLon]

And that kinda also sums up why vocaloid is so hard to get good at.

[@tananansad]

野龍 english vocaloids have allophones tho

[@pseducode]

Thank you. Was just about to say this.these phonemes are written as IPA (funny looking letters and such in a dictionary entry, for pronounciation purposes)

[@cammyboy011]

Glad you addressed the childhood hilarity of rude words spoken on computer synthesisers 🤣

[@FoxBlocksHere]

See n Say: "The cow says moo!" See n Say: stops on the frog slice Me: Impossible.

[@zapbeeblebrox1053]

Frog goes croak And the elephant goes toot The duck say quack And fish go blub And the seal goes ow ow ow But there's one sound That no one knows What does the fox say ????

[@FoxBlocksHere]

@@zapbeeblebrox1053 no

[@zapbeeblebrox1053]

@@FoxBlocksHere 😉🦊😁

[@OldBooTofu]

@@zapbeeblebrox1053 no

[@hadoom848]

@@zapbeeblebrox1053 Wa pa pa pa pa pa pow. Wa pa pa pa pa pa pa pow. WHAT DOES THE FOX SAY????

[@sporedoutofmymind]

If you're missing an Intellivoice game I know a guy that can get you a copy of B-17 BAAAAWUMBER

[@ukaszdrygiel6511]

David, You actually didn't explain how the speech synthesis works. You did explain how the fakes work. Looking forward for part two where you go deeper with how the allophones sound and how they are joined together!

[@mycosys]

the thing is he was completely wrong all round - those so called fakes are true speech synths - what they have stoired are synthesis parameters not recordings - a quick google would have told him that

[@johnfrancisdoe1563]

Mijc Osis He showed the insides of the fakex. They were sound snippet playback machines with fancy marketing.

[@mycosys]

@@johnfrancisdoe1563 and that isnt at all how the TI based stuff works, including the Chrysler cars. They use LPC speech synthesis, which 8bitguy has sadly confused with LPCM audio, they have nothing in common beyond the word linear. The speak and spell uses a TI TMC0280 speech synthesiser which is fed parameters for a basic model of voice box which it then models, it doesnt just play back recorded sound en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_predictive_coding They are very much real synthesizers and what he claimed was like saying a synthesizer isnt a real synthesizer because it uses stored voices and midi. He utterly fuxed the video WRT TI based stuff, and with regards what is and isnt speech synthesis.

[@mycosys]

@@johnfrancisdoe1563 Also what he claimed with the shitty commodore magic voice was correct - but it is STILL a synthesizer as much as wave table synthesizers and samplers are synthesizers (he certainly wouldn't argue a Fairlight CMI or an EMU on an AWE32 isnt a synthesizer).

[@mycosys]

@@johnfrancisdoe1563 oh yeah - and that car thing was form a Nissan, Chrysler DEFINITELY used TI synths

[@Kevelinu]

Who else hoped for any sort of mention of Miku / Vocaloid?^^ I know that technically isn't speech synthesis but... well singing synthesim and also he of course mostly covered old stuff, but since the end of the video had a look in the current times it certainly would have been a neat addition. Still an interesting video about how it all started!

[@mycosys]

he actually completely fuxed it. Those old chryslers used a TI chip, and the TI chips used true synthesis - just like any synthesizer they only had a limited number of stored voices, it wasnt recorded sound in the ROMs but the parameters for a synthesizer.

[@Medolino2009]

Techmoan's call was so cool hahaha... Thank you for great video as always. !!!

[@hamiltonbros2005]

4:01 *_D O N T F O R G E T Y O U R K E Y S_*

[@Grandmaster-Kush]

Microsoft Sam as a kid making him say RRRRRRRRRRR or FFFFFFFFFF and naughty words, ah the simple pleasures.

[@ihasahotdog3756]

Doesn’t Sam sound like the creep voices that play if you waited long enough on the original Xbox home screen

[@lynxxlynxx]

Wait what?

[@greysonmiller9407]

It sounds like the voices from Faith, which is supposed to look like it was made for C64.

[@Wilhelm1892]

@@greysonmiller9407 That's exactly what it is. SAM was used for all the voices in Faith.

[@fivesquaredyt2521]

69 likes

[@NickEh30VSFanFNFMod]

Click on this ihasabucket.com

[@LunariaPurple]

Bruh when he booted SAM up it reminded me of those terrifying sounds that would ocasionally play on the original Xbox menu

[@eswnl1]

4:00 Sounded like "don't forget your jeans"

[@VaughnRhinehart]

Im so happy you mentioned the VODER as I'm currently in the process of constructing a replica right now.

[@samandrew8158]

Hmm, I just assumed you meant *vocoder*...but after googling "voder" I see what you mean.

[@patemathic]

@@samandrew8158 or watched the video til the end

[@brentshaw9723]

Flack... watch out for flack....

[@Bacon420]

hahaha as a mostly blind user, and using every speech synth since the apple II addon box, I miss always typing in a phonetic spelling to make it sound good. Then the Kurzweil personal reader changed all that, with some pretty great human voices for their time!

[@reb6453]

Bacon420 hey

[@gregorymalchuk272]

Do you have retinitis pigmentosa?

[@Bacon420]

@@gregorymalchuk272 naah it was just extreme cataracts heh.

[@gregorymalchuk272]

@@Bacon420 Did you get them fixed? Cataracts aren't really a reason to be blind to the point of needing braille or aids if you're living in a first world country.

[@Bacon420]

@@gregorymalchuk272 My parents in 1975 decided not to get lens transplants, so I just lived with shitty vision forever haha. Due to a few other issues, there was too much scar tissue to ever do it again. I do read braille still, which is rare these days! I had lots of magnification devices through school.

[@bradandmawm3630]

Love how the commodore thing has a trans-Atlantic accent

[@idadood2278]

6:06 "Uh, AgreEd..." "Ruby, put your times tables away."

[@ian_b]

I swear that car advised the driver, "Don't forget your jeans". Which is pretty good advice I guess.

[@TheEmeraldMenOfficial]

It said “Don’t forget your keys.”

[@NaoPb]

Yes, that's what I heard. After thinking about it I realised it probably meant keys.

[@Nightenstaff]

Close @jaxxstraw , but what you really heard was, "Don't forget your genes". It was a family car...

[@Daxiel-vk7wj]

Pitching Sam's voice up makes him sound like bonzi buddy

[@user-vn7ce5ig1z]

There's a ancient DOS program called _TRAN.EXE_ that can do true speech-synthesis. It might be interesting to disassemble it to figure out how it works; it's only 47KB.

[@KRAFTWERK2K6]

There was another nice TTS program for DOS called Dr. Sbaitso. However it was more a TTS Chatbot.

[@hobbified]

@@KRAFTWERK2K6 The same pack included SBTALKER which was a straight TTS program without the Eliza. And the speech synthesizer it used (judging from the startup message printed by the driver) was First Byte Software's "SmoothTalker" engine.

[@silkwesir1444]

it also had that Parrot that supposedly reacted to what you said through a microphone. Never got it to react to anything except pressing the Space Bar ("Ouch!").

[@nrdesign1991]

There was also a Text-To-Speech engine called Monologuw, that had a distinct, robotic characteristic, but sounded quite good for the early 90's.

[@the_linguist_ll]

Allophones are not the building blocks of speech, phones are, allophones are the variations of those phones, as well as a subset. Phonemes are the meaningful phones to a language

[@srtgrayfrance]

Roger Waters’ album Radio Kaos used a.speech synthesiser on a BBC Master 128 for the character of Billy, and there was a speech synth ROM for the original BBC B featuring the voice of Kenneth Kendall, the BBC News reader. Both of these were early to mid ‘80s

[@limpfishyes]

Superior Software's Speech for the BBC B was true software speech synthesis in 1986

[@CDRiley]

Expensive Prank Call

[@wendyokoopa7048]

I think he's got one of those VoIP things

[@lajya01]

But totally worth it

[@chadsmith8476]

The Navy originally devised computationally efficient rules for automatically converting plain English text to a sequence of phonetic commands for a speech synthesizer.

[@TheDanielLivingston]

Nice. Source? I’d like to read more on that

[@amigalemming]

@@TheDanielLivingston Amiga's translator.library also consisted of such rules.

[@rossellis4365]

I love the synthesized "ha ha ha" from the Gorf game.

[@singeslayer8367]

I love old speech synthesizers, the worse they sound the more I like them. Thanks for the enlightenment, Dave!

[@PapiDoesIt]

My brother had Sam and I made it rap Run DMC lyrics. We too made it cuss.

[@BillAnt]

Look, just about every teenager in those days would type in "F*CK" as their first word into SAM... I know I did... lol

[@strongholds12]

Papi Uuhmelmehahay this is an amazing comment! Thanks for posting!

[@Semeyaza]

HELLO DOCTOR NAME CONTINUE YESTERDAY TOMORROW This is the correct test to use for a voice synthesizer. ;) Cheers

[@X-Gen-001]

Open the pod bay doors HAL.

[@Semeyaza]

@@X-Gen-001 I'm sorry, Dave. ;) Cheers

[@X-Gen-001]

@@Semeyaza lol 👍

[@danielsjohnson]

What about "the quick red fox jumped over the lazy brown dogs" since it uses every letter in the alphabet?

[@wheelchair1410]

@@danielsjohnson You know, in polish language the sentence "zażółć gęsią jaźń" is used to test. It's not really related to your comment. The sentence simply looks weird.

[@SumiitMelekaar]

Finally my search ended! I was wondering for years since I heard “ its my life - dr. Albun” intro. It had that robot sound. Today I came to know its the SAM! Thank you! You always bring something new from the past and make everyone feel younger. 🙏🏻❤️

[@j.d.6915]

Great video. I remember using Dr. Sbaitso on my Soundblaster back in the early 90's.

[@The8BitGuy]

I originally scripted in some examples of Dr. Sbaitso in this video, but eventually decided to cut them out due to the size of the video.

[@anthonyspecf]

One of the greatest voice synthesizer psychiatrists ever :)

[@DavidSherman1980]

"Hello, my name is Dr. SBAITSO. I am here to help you. Please tell me your problems." I loved this thing, mainly to play with different combinations of words and letters to make it pronounce things properly or say goofy things. But the simple "AI" interactions and conversation was pretty fun for that era.

[@crispytheone88]

I'm a bit shocked you left out the TI-99/4a speech synthesizer, it was really good for the early 80's, It also had full text to speech with the Terminal Emulator II cartridge. The TI-99/4a in extended basic had a set list of words. Some games, like Parsec, for example, had different voices that were recorded, but really really well for the time frame. Very good video explaining the progression of synthesized speech.

[@mycosys]

It was a terrible vid in that everything about the TI was wrong. The same system was used on the 99/4a - it actually models the voice box and what is fed to it (either form the limited vocab on ROM or from a set of phonemes on the 99/4a or the BBC micro or many other computers) are modelling parameters for that virtual voice box, not recordings at all. It is more true synthesis than any other system you could find. It seems like he has mixed up LPC speech synthesis and LPCM audio recording.

[@alexhauptmann298]

OK, speech synthesis nerd here, so...brace yourself. Pretty sure there's a vocoder in the "War Games" voice chain. Something about the very high end of it and how it doesn't get sibilance quite right. I think the talking car in the first video (a Chrysler, I believe?) was a Texas Instruments synth, similar to the speak and spell. In fact Plogue posted some videos of them emulating it (or something similar) as part of their research for their plug-in "Chipspeech". However, many other talking cars did use the plastic record mechanism. You're right in that the Speak and Spell, Magic Voice etc work from a predetermined word bank that was sourced from recordings of human voices. However, there was no way to hold raw audio data of intelligible speech of any length with the memory constraints at the time, so the voice recordings were analyzed by a computer program that translated them into a series of "keyframes" that were used to control a speech synthesizer chip. This is called "synthesis by analysis", and the audio encoding for C64 Ghostbusters worked a similar way for a similar reason. This is why there's a garbled, almost auto-tuned pitch "stepping" as the voice sweeps downward. Fun fact, the chip used in the Currah cartridge is extremely similar to the one in the Intellivoice (both in the General Instruments SP0256 family), except its internal ROM has allophones instead of synthesis-by-analysis data. So really, it's doing the same sort of "stringing together" separate recordings, although on a more granular scale. (This is also why Voice 0 speaks more slowly than Voice 1-in reality they're the same data playing at different speeds! In fact the CoCo synth uses the EXACT same chip, playing at yet ANOTHER speed-although it does appear that the text-to-allophone software routine is significantly superior.) I hope I'm not coming off TOO pedantic here, I'm SUPER happy to see you making a video about speech synthesis because it's an incredibly fascinating topic (at least to me). :)

[@HarleyBadger]

Yep, the Chrysler system was a Texas Instruments CM63002ANS, I have one sitting four feet behind me ;-)

[@mycosys]

IMO you arent coming off near pedantic enough when he actually plays 8 bit synths and calls himself a synth specialist etc. He is completely arse backward about what speech synthesis is, and those TIs are true speech synthesis because that what they have stored are the parameters for wave generation, not recorded waveforms. What he said is the equivalent of saying a synthesizer isnt a real synthesizer unless it can play every tune ever made from the name, and that if it needs midi or a keyboard it isnt a real synthesizer.

[@cmpvariety1764]

Wow! I love that you gave us all this information seriously I'm fascinated by this. I've been blind all my life so I use text to speech everyday, and just hearing about how all this works is so fascinating it's amazing. Thank you so much for telling us about all this, I love it it's awesome.

[@victoryismine2121]

14:28 so that's how they get the voices for the trollge

[@rayman3521]

"Does it hurt? Does it keep you up at night knowing it's your fault?"

[@hdort]

Ha, Sam! We tried to make it say German words, which was hilarious!

[@adamfox9651]

Or you could just play "Castle Wolfenstein". Schweinhund!

[@pvanukoff]

Nice video as always. However, it doesn't really explain *how* they actually work. This is more like "how have they evolved over the years" type of video.

[@charlescampuz5812]

JellyGamer Sorry man, but you make it too obvious: [Insecurity Intensifies]

[@Your_username_]

Charles Campuz what do you mean?

[@charlescampuz5812]

You He took offense to the OP’s opinion.

[@seippolf8919]

@@charlescampuz5812 Not really, he just stated opinion of his own. I hear that is allowed now.

[@charlescampuz5812]

Seippolf Yes you can have opinions, but don’t tell me you don’t see where it starts to derail and show him very subtlety insulting Paul midway in his comment.

[@morimori7456]

you can't go through the entire video without ever even mentioning VOCALOIDS

[@sammy_]

speech synthesis and singing synthesis are kind of different, but as broad as this guy goes, they would fit right in

[@alexkubrat3868]

Nah, Vocaloid is just a voice synthesizer that can stretch, change pitch and other things to the generated voice

[@sammy_]

@@alexkubrat3868 it still uses concatenative synthesis in the same way speech synthesizers do

[@UnReaLgeek]

The speech cartridge for the C64 actually sounds like an accessibility option for blind users, since it plugs into the monitor port and says every key stroke. Combine that with learning to touch type or even a set of Braille key covers (which somebody would’ve hacked together), and you’ve got a blind accessible computer.

[@dakotahrickard]

Funny you should mention that. I used the Echo speech system on two different Apple II computers (a 2E and a 2GS) during my childhood. As a visually impaired user, I benefitted a lot from the text-to-speech boom in the 80s and 90s. The Echo is hard to find clips of on KZbin, which is too bad, because I have serious nostalgia for that. It sounds a lot like the speech cartridge for the C64, but it pronounced things very slightly better. I also used several Blazie Engineering "Braille ;'n Speak" notetakers (basically forerunners of the PDA). Those had what I believe to be Votrax speech chips built into the units. I used a variety of other synthesizers in other computing contexts and am presently typing this comment on my iPhone with Voiceover installed. I also am glad for the overlay I had in order to learn to type on my school computer, though I'm glad I learned to do away with it and to rely on (more speedy and accurate) touch typing. I know I might be preaching to the choir, as it were; after all, you brought up accessibility and all, but I thought that my experience might be interesting.