ms-sam-mike-mary-decomp
Microsoft Sam, Mike and Mary (SAPI 5) rebuilt in portable C, sample-accurate, plus the SAPI 4 voice effects (Hall, Stadium, Space, RoboSoft, Whisper)
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GITHUB · launched Sep 18, 2026 · 11 upvotes (top 68%) · 3 views
Niche: speech processing software · 57 launches, 7 in the last 7 days ▼ -22% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
No Decompiling legacy proprietary Windows binaries (SAPI 4/5) into sample-accurate, portable C with custom audio DSP filters requires advanced binary reverse engineering and digital signal processing knowledge.
What it would actually take: This project requires reverse-engineering 32-bit x86 Windows DLLs using Ghidra or IDA Pro to extract speech synthesis algorithms, formant tables, and audio filter routines. The decompiled routines must be rewritten into portable standard C, validating bit-level and sample-accurate DSP output against the original Microsoft text-to-speech engine.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 50 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #42 of 51 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 298 days after the earliest competitor.
- SingingVoiceStudio · github · 2026-10-02 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- scramby-voice-effects · github · 2026-11-10 · 102 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- ssi263-speech · github · 2026-09-25 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- Means Audio · ph · 2026-10-01 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- mlx-AuK · github · 2026-09-12 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.35
- chimera-vocal-synth · github · 2026-11-05 · 1109 upvotes · similarity 0.35
- I built a free CharacterAI that runs locally · hn · 2026-03-25 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.35
- Mic Mix · ph · 2026-10-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.34
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