Re: Multilingual synthesis

["juan rafael fernández" <jrfern gmail com>]

2007/2/20, Peter Parente <parente gmail com>:

> Tomas wrote
> > I believe that the solution to this would be to:
> >  1. Use the language information wherever possible

Maybe this is related, maybe not. There was a SoC project last year
"guessing language component" for OpenOffice. For example see
http://www.mail-archive.com/dev lingucomponent openoffice org/msg00958.html

Maybe it can be reused.

> >  2. Provide a mechanism to switch the language manually

> the user may select up to three alternative languages based on
> those supported by the current engine in the settings dialog.

Right. The problem is, not a single free engine covers the different
languages I need. So I have to change voice and driver (festival and
espeak from speech-dispatcher). And don't you get sound device
blocking problems?

> the user may press a hotkey to
> quickly cycle through his or her choices.

That sounds great, fro mthe point of view of an end user.

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Juan Rafael Fernández
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