Editing Software Automatic Mouth (section)

{{Short description|1982 speech synthesis program}}
{{More citations needed|date=April 2015}}
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| name                   = Software Automatic Mouth
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| screenshot             = Samcover.jpg
| caption                = Atari cover for Software Automatic Mouth
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| author                 = Mark Barton<ref name=intodemo>[http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Intro_Demo.txt It Sure Is Great To Get Out Of That Bag!], Author: Andy Hertzfeld, Date: January 1984, Folklore.org</ref>
| developer              = Don’t Ask Software
| released               = {{Start date and age|1982}}
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| platform               = [[Apple II]], [[Apple Lisa|Lisa]], [[Atari 8-bit]], [[Commodore 64]].
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| genre                  = [[Speech synthesis]]
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[[File:C64 Software Automatic Mouth demo.flac|thumb|A demo of SAM on the C64]]

'''Software Automatic Mouth''', or S.A.M. (sometimes abbreviated as SAM), is a [[speech synthesis]] program developed by Mark Barton and sold by Don't Ask Software. The program was released for the [[Atari 8-bit computers]], [[Apple II]], and [[Commodore 64]]. Released in 1982, it was one of the first commercial all-software voice-synthesis programs.{{Citation needed|date=December 2019}}

Don't Ask Software also sold ''PokerSAM'', a poker game with speech,<ref>{{cite web |title=PokerSAM |url=http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-400-800-xl-xe-pokersam_4036.html |website=Atari Mania}}</ref> and also licensed out the S.A.M. engine for use with other games, such as ''Tales of the Arabian Nights'' for the [[Commodore 64]].