Re: [g-a-devel] Language Identifier for VoiceInfo [Multi-language support consideration]

[Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>]

Aditya Pandey wrote:

> I have ported my app's interface to gnome-speech in linux (in MS
> Windows, it is implemented using SAPI). Till now, I have been able to
> test only with US English for gnome-speech.
>  

gnome-speech provides information on the 'locale' which a voice 
supports, in the 'language' string member of the VoiceInfo structure.  
You can either query for all voices which a driver has which support a 
particular locale, or you can examine the 'language' member of an 
existing voice.  The string in the 'language' member conforms to the 
standard POSIX locale string format used elsewhere in Unix/Linux.  Note 
also that if you do a VoiceInfo query with a non-NULL language string, 
you can do matching on language substrings (such as "en" instead of 
"en_GB", etc.).  For instance, a query for "pt_BR" would match only 
Brazilian Portuguese, whereas a query for "pt" would match both "pt_BR" 
and "pt".

regards

Bill

> To provide support for multiple languages in SAPI, I could have used a
> specific code for each language (LCID) much like following reference:
>       http://www.microsoft.com/OpenType/OTSpec/name.htm
>
> SImilary, I need to something in linux realm and for that, I seek your
> advice/guidance/suggestions.
>
> Since gspeech itself is a wrapper, is there standard for all drivers
> for language (specific field GNOME_Speech_VoiceInfo.language) ? Like
> festival uses 'en_us' and freeTTS/viavoice also specifying 'en_us'
> instead of non standard 'ENU'. Is there some doc available on net for
> this?
>
> Aditya Kumar Pandey
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