A 1982 machine that actually understands you. Galah stays in character and reads every reply aloud in the current voice — sliders and the effects rack apply, so you can interrogate it in a cathedral. The microphone listens for one question at a time.
In phonetic mode Galah skips its text rules and pronounces exactly the
phonemes you type, just like on the C64. Vowels:
IY (feet), IH (pin), EH (beg), AE (sam),
AA (pot), AH (budget), AO (talk), UH (book),
UX (loot), ER (bird). Diphthongs:
EY AY OY AW OW UW. Consonants are mostly what you'd guess
(B D G P T K M N S Z F V R L W Y CH SH TH DH J), plus
/H for h and NX for -ng.
Put a digit 1–8 after a vowel to stress or bend it
(HEH3LOW), and use spaces for pauses. In sing mode, stress
numbers become pitch — that's how Galah carries a tune.
Galah is built on discordier/sam (S.A.M.), a JavaScript port of SOFTVOICE's 1982 Software Automatic Mouth by Christian Schiffler.
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