Re: [orca-list] Orca with Persian or Farsi language

["B.Henry" <burt1iband gmail com>]

I think this was, maybe stil  is in the experimental language category, 
test subdir maybe it was called.
I wonder which non-English languages are considered good by their users.
Sadly, Spanish, the only language other than English I have used, is not 
nearly as good as English, although to be fair is usable.
I recommend pico or Voxin for most Spanish speakers anyway.
Perhaps there is a festival option for Pursian.

     B.H.
   Registerd Linux User 521886

On 25/09/15 06:42 AM, Rob Whyte wrote:
> Hi Kendell,
> yep I've done all of that and yes Espeak is fine if the correct language
> is being used.
>
> He tried NVDA with Persian but said a lot of the words were translated
> wrong so the concern is will it be the same with Espeak on Orca.
>
> I guess what I am after is more a user experience to how good the native
> languages are.
> Thanks for your Email.
>
> Warm regards
> Rob
>
>
> On 25/09/15 20:51, kendell clark wrote:
> > hi
> > Does this person like or can he at the very least live with espeak? I
> > believe espeak speaks both those languages, though I don't know how good
> > the support is. If so, all you'd need to do would be to add the farsee
> > and persian languages to the system. I need to look into how exactly
> > this is done, but there are two ways to do it that I know of. By editing
> > /etc/locale.conf and uncommenting out the languages you want, which
> > requires you to know the country code for the language. For example, DE
> > is german, IT is italian, etc. After this is done, you need to run the
> > locale-gen utility to generate the locales, since they're not generated
> > until enabled. The second is to use unity's, or gnome's language panel
> > to add it. I'm fairly sure you can simply change the language by
> > clicking on a more button and then picking the language from a list, but
> > you have to log out and back in for the language to take full effect.
> > The main problem is going to be orca switching over to that new
> > language. I think, but don't know for sure, that orca will detect the
> > system locale and switch over itself, but that only works if the
> > language is set properly. If you change it later, orca can't pick up on
> > it. This needs to be fixed but I don't know how, or what exactly the
> > problem is. If he doesn't like espeak or won't use it, I think he might
> > be SOL. The other main popular speech synthesizer, ibmtts, can't speak
> > either of those languages, and I don't think any of the commercial
> > voices for linux can either, but I'm not certain.
> > Thanks
> > Kendell clark
> >
> >
> > On 09/25/2015 04:47 AM, Rob Whyte wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > I am wishing to find experiences of people using Persian or Farsi with
> > > Orca or Linux in general specifically Ubuntu hopefully.
> > > Please feel free to write me offl-list or in this thread.
> > >
> > > I wish to set up a Vinux machine for a refugee with both English and his
> > > native language.
> > >
> > > THanks
> > > Kind regards
> > > Rob
> > >
> > >
> > >
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