[emptybits]

SAM (the Software Automatic Mouth) was available in 1982 for Apple, Commodore, & Atari 8-bit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_Automatic_Mouth

[vidarh]

And it was developed by the same company.

SoftVoice's website still exists, but no idea if the company is still alive: http://www.text2speech.com