Re: [orca-list] Swedish voices

[Peter Korn <Peter Korn Sun COM>]

Hi Mattias

> Where can i find swedish voices for orca

eSpeak, one of the open source text-to-speech engines that works with 
Orca, supports Swedish (they describe the quality as: "This has now had 
some work done on the pronunciation rules, so it should be useable." - 
see http://espeak.sourceforge.net/languages.html).  Depending upon what 
system you are running on, eSpeak with Swedish support may already be 
present (try the latest builds of Ubuntu for something that has recent 
eSpeak on it).  Orca itself has been localized into Swedish, and ought 
to work with eSpeak (and as with eSpeak, the latest Ubuntu keeps pretty 
up to date with Orca builds).  I haven't tried that combination myself, 
and know perhaps 2 words of Swedish, so I wouldn't be a good person to 
evaluate it in any case.

If you need to build Orca, or gnome-speech (the text-to-speech framework 
that connects Orca to eSpeak among other TTS engines), please see 
http://live.gnome.org/Orca/DownloadInstall for information on this.  To 
get and build eSpeak, start with http://espeak.sourceforge.net/


Good luck, and please let us know how things work out.  Also, I believe 
there may be some Swedish Orca users on this list.  If I'm correct, 
perhaps they might share their experiences.


Regards,

Peter Korn
Accessibility Architect,
Sun Microsystems, Inc.