Re: [orca-list] voice profiles?

[Janina Sajka <janina rednote net>]

Hi, Jacob:


I see your point, but there's an easy solution. The various ISO and RFC
docs that define language denotation support a distinction between
primary language (e.g. English-EN) and local variants (e.g. EN-US for
U.S. English and EN-GB for British English).

Of course things should be configurable. I could imagine having more
than one speech synth on my hard drive for any particular language. In
fact, I do have several.

But, in the case of the DAISY book, or the Office document, or the
multilingual web page, there's just no other way to get a satisfactory
reading experience. In fact, I think this is one are where we've not
done so well with our computer based tools, despite the fact that
support has been available in markup since at least HTML 4. The W3C
technical recommendation on this can be found at:

http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/dirlang.html

Janina

Jacob Schmude writes:
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> Actually, I think that should be optional. There are occasions when you
> really don't want that to happen. Example: I use an American English
> voice. I don't want every British web page or document I read to switch
> to the British voice. If automatic language switching is implemented, it
> needs to be configurable. Further, say I have a couple of profiles
> defined for a language. How would it decide which one to use?
>
>
> On 05/01/2010 02:40 PM, Janina Sajka wrote:
> > Jacob Schmude writes:
> > > The talk about the say all voice got me thinking of another feature I
> > > would really like to see: voice profiles like in jaws 10 and later. This
> > > would be nice for reading content in other languages, you could assign a
> > > hotkey to switch profiles and could have your parameter set up for each
> > > language you use. It wouldn't just store the tts engine and voice, but
> > > the rate, pitch, and volume associated with it and probably for all
> > > three (maybe four if the say all voice is implemented) voice types if
> > > their parameters are different from the default voice. This really would
> > > make it easier to deal with reading multiple languages.
> > It should also be called automatically in any document where language
> > changes are indicated by markup, such as is supported by html/xml.
> >
> > I like the idea of an easy way to switch languages/voices, but it's also
> > necessary, imho, to make this switching automatic in multilingual
> > documents.
> >
> > Janina
> >
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