Re: Orca Another translation question

[Willem van der Walt <wvdwalt csir co za>]

Hi,
The problem you are having could easily be solved with espeak as the 
engine.
That is the place to solve it anyway.
Add entries for the words in question to the de-list file.
You can tell espeak to use the speech rules of another language for a 
specific word, so,
at _&_EN
Should tell espeak to use the English rules for saying at.
If it is the at sign, the idea is the same, the place where to put it 
might be different.
hth, Willem
ps. you need to do:
speak --compile=de
in the directory where the de_list file is, to have the suggested change 
take effect.


On Sun, 4 Mar 2007, Jochen Skulj wrote:

> Hi Will,
>
> > 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.
>
>  agree with you that the Orca translation must not depend on a specific
>  speech engine. But the example I mentioned is from my point of view not
> a specific problem of the espeak engine that I use; it is more the
> question if the speech engine supports more than one language and
> recognizes a english word even in a german text:
>
> The symbol » « represents the english word »at«. In German this is not
> translated but the majority just uses the English word »at«. If I send
> »at« to the espeak engine using the german voice it pronounces »at« like
> a german word which sounds quite unfamiliar. I don't know if other
> speech synthesizers can do this better.
>
> There are only few strings (maybe 5-7) which should remain in English
> (Although the use anglicisms become more and more popular in Germany the
> GNOME Translation Team tries to avoid English words and to use German
> words only). In these few cases I had the idea to »translate« the words
> into a kind of pronunciation for Germans of these english words. It's
> not that specific for the espeak engine and I would espect other engines
> that support German would pronounce these words quite english as well.
>
> I hope that I was somehow able to explain the problem and my idea. Of
> course, I can leave the strings in english if you like and if other
> engines can handle this better than espeak. Please let me know.
>
> Thanks, Jochen
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