On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 09:25:32AM -0400, Willie Walker wrote: > Let me make sure I understand the proposal here: > 1) IN FESTIVAL: Rely on a convention to optionally extend the [...] > 2) IN GNOME-SPEECH: Patch the gnome-speech festival synthesis driver to [...] Yes, that's the same as I understood. > This sounds simple enough to me. I may be misunderstanding something > in one of the threads on this topic, but it seems that it is implied > that the user will be setting the character encoding for their desktop > to be the same as that of their synthesis engine/voice and visa versa. > Should some sort of transcoding/conversion be attempted if there is a > detected mismatch, or is this automatically handled by the g_io > infrastructure? From what I understand from here: http://www.gtk.org/api/2.6/glib/glib-IO-Channels.html#g-io-channel-set-encoding then g_io is capable of doing recoding internally, since it says that "The internal encoding is always UTF-8.". I understand that the idea is that a GTK application can do everything in UTF-8 internally and g_io takes care of recoding when one needs to interact with the messy external world. Which is quite cool, actually :) > In addition, the obvious impact here is on our Telugu > (festival-te.sf.net) and other UTF-8 language friends - they would need > to extend the relevant festival voices to set the "coding" parameter to > UTF-8 and also help test this. Yes, they would need to add the coding attribute, or gnome-speech would try to recode their input into ISO-8859-1 (latin1), probably failing while trying to recode sequences that cannot be encoded in latin1. Luckily, it's very simple to add the coding attribute: see the attached patch for Telugu (I followed the URL you gave to download the sources). > Please let me know if I'm understanding this correctly. In addition, > many many thanks to both Enrico and Milan for their understanding and > diligence in this matter. You definitely help define what "community" > means. Thanks! /me blushes > PS - I'm out of the office for the next several days, but I will > release a new gnome-speech tarball for the next GNOME 2.15 deadline > (12-July) if we can quickly reach closure on this. That would be just fantastic. Ciao, Enrico -- GPG key: 1024D/797EBFAB 2000-12-05 Enrico Zini <enrico debian org>
diff -Naur festival-te-0.3.2.orig/telugu_NSK_diphone/festvox/telugu_NSK_diphone.scm festival-te-0.3.2/telugu_NSK_diphone/festvox/telugu_NSK_diphone.scm
--- festival-te-0.3.2.orig/telugu_NSK_diphone/festvox/telugu_NSK_diphone.scm 2006-04-04 05:46:13.000000000 +0100
+++ festival-te-0.3.2/telugu_NSK_diphone/festvox/telugu_NSK_diphone.scm 2006-07-01 15:02:25.000000000 +0100
@@ -225,6 +225,8 @@
(description
"COMMENT"
)
- (builtwith festvox-1.2)))
+ (builtwith festvox-1.2)
+ (coding UTF-8)
+ ))
(provide 'telugu_NSK_diphone)
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