Re: Orca Another translation question

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Jochen:

Thanks for translating!

> can anybody tell me if the strings in ../src/orca/chnames.py are used
> for speech output? I suppose so, but I am not quite sure.
>   

These are indeed used for speech output.  :-)

> I just enabled Orca to speak German and I would »translate« these
> strings in that way that it sounds correctly if you use the German voice
> of espeak. For example, I would translate »at« with »ät« because then it
> sounds like Germans pronounce @.
>   

The main thing to do is to translate the character into the word(s) that 
a native speaker of the language would choose.  IMO, if the TTS engine 
has pronunciation problems for words, the TTS engine should be fixed 
rather than trying to accommodate its shortcomings in the client.   One 
of the reasons for this is that there are a variety of TTS engines that 
can be used with Orca; accommodating the unique pronunciation 
characteristics of just one of these engines might  end up having 
adverse effects on the other engines that get it right.

Will