Windows XP Text to Speech - Microsoft Sam's Songs

Suggested by: Jonathan Hearn, 20 Sep 2005 | Print version

This is more of a little known fun activity than an easter egg.

1: click on start menu
2: open control panel
3: click sound speech and audio devices or speech (make sure your speakers are turned on.)
4: select Microsoft Sam as your voice selection (I've only ever tried Microsoft Sam, but others may work as well.)
5: type 'oooooooo. oooooooo. ououoouuuo ououoouuuo oooooooo.' without the apostrophes into the 'preview text' box.
6: set the voice speed to 7 or between Normal and Fast
7: click preview voice

For some reason, Microsoft Sam pronounces a string of vowels with insensible blabbering at different tones. This can be fun to try and make songs out of like the one above.

Other songs I've come up with are yooooootrogoooo, trogoooo u trogoooo. yooooootrogoooo, u. u. trogoooo. at speed 9 and to a lesser extent gigooggtau giiiiooo. gigooggtau ioi a, gie gie giigotudu. du, i. io a. also at speed 9. The last one doesn't contain very many strings of vowels so it loses its sense of quick repetition, and is not as good as the other two.

Comments | 7

I type just randomness and set it to high speed such as: tgggteffrfkHbekynjtnhycyej:lrw n`.i -- Smasho, Mar 21 2011 7:03PM

ugh ti ah tig ugh ti ah tig ugh ti ah tig ..... -- who cares, Jul 13 2010 7:44AM

try djidjdjdjdjdjdjdjdjdjdjdjdj and any other combination of consonants with at least one vowel in the word. sound blaster's audio cards used to come with a software that could explicitely sing, i loved that -- sam's cousin, Apr 1 2009 9:14AM

'iam going nuts nuts nuts nuts nuts NUTS! NUTS! NUTS! nuts nuts nuts' type that without quotes sounds weired ;) best regards -- Nutty Couchbewohner, Oct 19 2008 10:43AM

the oooo... works better at 3 or 4 speed...its slow and rhythmic... -- Avinash, Feb 28 2008 6:12AM

hahaha that is really funny! -- doctor, Jun 29 2007 6:14AM

This works great in DECtalk-based speech systems, such as TextAssist. -- Jsantos, May 2 2007 10:34PM

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