Dr. Sbaitso - Free Download Ancient DOS App
Nostalgia
Dr. Sbaitso is an artificial intelligence speech synthesis program released in 1992 by Creative Labs for DOS-based personal computers.
It was more of a heuristic-based chatbot running scripted responses rather than actual learning or intelligence.
You can interact with Dr. Sbaitso like you're consulting to a Shrink (Psychiatrist). It won't tell you direct solution, but it's so funny, you'll laugh, maybe. It's like chatting with your computer.
Type whatever comes in your mind to Dr. Sbaitso, and he will respond to your typed words/sentence.
- DOS application
- Size: 210 KB
- Developer: Creative Labs
- Publisher: Creative Labs
- Year: 1992
How to Use in Windows 11
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Download DOSBox.
Pick the Windows — Win32 installer.
Then install it on your machine.
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Once installed, open DOSBox:
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Extract
DR.SBAITSO.zip
to an easy-to-type path. For instance, the root of C drive, D drive, or other drive.In this example, I use drive
D
to keep thesbaitso
folder. -
We mount that
D:\sbaitso
folder to DOSBox'sC
drive. Type this in DOSBox terminal and hitEnter
:MOUNT C D:\sbaitso
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We move to
C
folder in DOSBox:C:
Once we're in
C
drive, when we dodir
, we will see all the files. -
Run Dr. Sbaitso by typing
SBAITSO2.EXE
On my machine, it said
Synthesizer Not installed
— it's fine, we can still type our name, but without any sound from the program. -
Done. We can interact with Dr. Sbaitso. Without any sound. 🤣 Oh, the irony.
As Dr. SBAITSO was bundled by Creative Labs with early Sound Blaster 16/Pro cards. Its whole point was to show off the card's text-to-speech (TTS) capabilities. To produce the speech.
Doctor Ossbita
I made a program like Dr. Sbaitso, it's called Doctor Ossbita, for browser. Let's compare them. 😂