Re: [orca-list] Orca: how to change voice dynamically

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

Yes, you need to have a way of knowing which language you are using.
For actually switching the language, ssml IMHO is the way to go.
Espeak does support ssml, so that could be used for testing.
Regards, Willem

On Sun, 7 Feb 2010, Michael Whapples wrote:

> Hello,
> I must admit I am not an expert on orca's code but here is what I guess might
> need to be done.
>
> * You will need to detect the language of the text some how. This might be
> easier in certain applications as they may know this information but could be
> difficult in others (eg. a plain text editor such as gedit won't have language
> information).
> * You will need some way for selecting the voice for each language (eg. I may
> have multiple english and german voices, how might it know which to use for
> german). This probably means adding settings to the orca settings window.
>
> I imagine this might need changes through quite a bit of orca.
>
> Michael Whapples
> On 01/-10/-28163 08:59 PM, anila susan wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm  working on a text to speech synthesis using festival, for Indian
> > languages.
> > We are using Orca as the screen reader.
> > I'm not familar with orca source code.
> > Im facing an issue and hope someone might be able to help me out.
> >
> > We want orca to change the voice selected dynamically depending on the text
> > that is available. Say, if we have opened an English text it should read it
> > out in English using the voice kal_diphone, if the text is in some Indian
> > languages, it should select the corresponding voice and read out.
> > For this, which files of orca should I be modifying ?
> > Can anybody give me an idea how to proceed with this.
> >
> > Thanks a lot,
> > Anila.

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