Within two years, the video received over 1.6 million views. On July 17th, 2010, when YouTuber motdef uploaded a video titled 'Moonbase Alpha Provides a Realistic Simulation of Life on a Natural Satellite', featuring three players using the TTS engine to shout random phrases using the monikers mot, mastergir, and Horatio. DECTalk is also capable of singing by a specific set of instructions based on phonemes and frequencies. DECTalk was made popular by Stephen Hawking and, of course, Moonbase Alpha. DECTalk was a speech synthesizer and text-to-speech technology developed by Digital Equipment Corporation in the early 1980s. The TTS engine used in the game is a modified version of DECTalk.

Within two years, the video received over 103,000 views and 230 comments. On July 7th, 2010, a YouTube user named ABadFeeling uploaded a video of several players using the game's TTS engine to say humorous phrases (shown at 1:50 below).

Moonbase Alpha was released for free download via the Steam digital distribution service July 6th, 2010. The game became popular due to its text-to-speech (TTS) engine, which was humorously used in gameplay videos on YouTube. Moonbase Alpha is a simulation video game developed by Army Game Studio in conjunction with NASA Learning Technologies. Moonbase, steam, game, alpha, youtube, aeiou, space, john madden, army game studio, nasa learning technologies, tts, abadfeeling, dectalk, torpedojones, mryaridovich

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