Re: [orca-list] Orca text-to-speech in a new language?

[Jonathan Duddington <jonsd users sf net>]

On 02 Oct, Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com> wrote:
> On 10/02/2013 08:52 AM, Carsten Agger wrote:

> > The speech/loud-reading, however, is entirely based on the English
> > pronunciation and even pronounces the first purson plural pronoun
> > "vi" (approximately pronounced "vee", but with a short "ee") as
> > "roman six". Which means it's pretty useless.

> I assume you are using the Danish synthesizer and not the English one?
> If so, then that suggests that espeak's Danish voice needs some help.

The eSpeak Danish voice does pronounce the word "vi" correctly, so it
sounds as though you're using the eSpeak English voice, not the Danish
voice.

Danish is a difficult language for speech synthesis, but Peter Bjarkov
has done a lot of work on the eSpeak Danish voice.  Try eSpeak 1.47 or
later.
http://espeak.sourceforge.net/