Talk:Microsoft Sam

hey, this is bob. i would like to know if it is possible to somehow connect mirosoft sam to msn messenger? thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.137.216.35 (talk) 08:07, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
 * You cannot ask anywhere on Wikipedia, it's not a tech forum. ... Try asking on a tech forum instead. --MasterOfTheXP (talk) 19:52, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

I have moved 101 Things To Do With Microsoft Sam from the main page to this talk page, as it is considered better form. If people are actually looking for the list, they may find it here. Thank you, User:Mys e kurity|Mysekurity ]] additions | e-mail ]]01:56, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

I removed some of the text mentioning various words and curse words which sounded funny when spoken with Microsoft Sam. I don't think these are really important enough or relevant for an encylopedia entry like this. The 101 Things To Do With Microsoft Sam seems like a great place for these. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dave w74 (talk) 08:07, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

Origin of the name
I'm guessing that SAM is a reference to Software Automatic Mouth from Don't Ask Software in the 80s, as Microsoft Sam sounds a lot similar. I'd add it to the main page but don't want to trigger some spastic deletionist's "original research" revert, if anyone can dig up any references that'd be cool. 64.58.22.201 (talk) 20:07, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
 * You definitely shouldn't be adding it when it's only a guess that could easily be wrong. For all we know, Sam was the name of one of the chief architect's/developer's pets Nil Einne (talk) 12:45, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

Merge suggestions

 * Move to Speech synthesis: I believe we should move Microsoft Sam, Microsoft Mike, and Microsoft Anna to Speech synthesis. The Windows section already has comments on SAPI there, and all 3 of these articles are stubs. --MasterOfTheXP (talk) 19:52, 20 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Make a new article called "Microsoft Text-to-Speech": I would suggest to move this along with Anna, Mike, and Mary (along with other Microsoft text-to-speech I might of not mentioned) to a new article called Microsoft Speech, or something similar to that. This would combine all the information from the other articles and make it into a more organised article. This will also prevent it from being a stub.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Yuerdong (talk • contribs) 19:39, 9 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Of the 2 suggestions above, I think a "Microsoft Text-to-Speech" article may be better, if some quality refs could be found. Speech synthesis is already pretty long... --AbsolutDan (talk) 14:17, 12 July 2009 (UTC)