Re: Orca Relevant default language for gnome-speech

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Good idea for an improvement!  I logged this as
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=397306.

Thanks!

Will

On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 12:24 +0100, Gilles Casse wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Could Orca select by default the relevant language for gnome-speech?
>
> I am running an old version of Orca so sorry if the feature is already
> available.
>
> It would be great if the default language of gnome-speech match the
> preferred language of the user.
> For example:
>
> * if a French user starts for the first time a Gnome desktop offering
> Orca + eSpeak, he may expect that eSpeak will speak automatically in
> French.
>
> * If a Chinese user has his environment variables:
> LANGUAGE=zh 
> LANG=zh_HK.Big5
>
> and starts for the first time Orca + IBM TTS, the Traditionnal Chinese
> language (zh_HK) could be selected if present in the voice list.
>
> Note: the eSpeak driver will supply soon the correct language info
> (after r268).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Gilles