Beyond the SCA: strategies for improving conlanger productivity

[xxx]

It doesn't require much hardware to get a synthesizer to speak. In the 1980s, the Commodore 64 home computer had a simple built-in synthesizer, and there was a program called SAM/Reciter for it which made this synthesizer speak, with an unnatural-sounding but intelligible voice.

here https://discordier.github.io/sam/

[WeepingElf]

It doesn't require much hardware to get a synthesizer to speak. In the 1980s, the Commodore 64 home computer had a simple built-in synthesizer, and there was a program called SAM/Reciter for it which made this synthesizer speak, with an unnatural-sounding but intelligible voice.

here https://discordier.github.io/sam/

That one appears to be a port of the original program. In the 1980s, JavaScript of course wasn't a thing yet.

[alice]

It doesn't require much hardware to get a synthesizer to speak. In the 1980s, the Commodore 64 home computer had a simple built-in synthesizer, and there was a program called SAM/Reciter for it which made this synthesizer speak, with an unnatural-sounding but intelligible voice.

here https://discordier.github.io/sam/

That one appears to be a port of the original program. In the 1980s, JavaScript of course wasn't a thing yet.

Actually, one of the Dead Sea Scrolls was written in what turned out to be a local dialect of Javascript.

[WeepingElf]

here https://discordier.github.io/sam/

That one appears to be a port of the original program. In the 1980s, JavaScript of course wasn't a thing yet.

Actually, one of the Dead Sea Scrolls was written in what turned out to be a local dialect of Javascript.

No, you confused Javascript and Jawa script. Jawas have of course been common in the area around the Dead Sea for thousands of years.

[alice]

That one appears to be a port of the original program. In the 1980s, JavaScript of course wasn't a thing yet.

Actually, one of the Dead Sea Scrolls was written in what turned out to be a local dialect of Javascript.

No, you confused Javascript and Jawa script. Jawas have of course been common in the area around the Dead Sea for thousands of years.

Damn it, and I was sure there was a research grant in there somewhere Are you sure you're not being misled by the standard German pronunciation of <w>?

[WeepingElf]

Actually, one of the Dead Sea Scrolls was written in what turned out to be a local dialect of Javascript.

No, you confused Javascript and Jawa script. Jawas have of course been common in the area around the Dead Sea for thousands of years.

Damn it, and I was sure there was a research grant in there somewhere Are you sure you're not being misled by the standard German pronunciation of <w>?

They are written with <w>, at least according to Wookiepedia.