Hi Tomas, all;
At this point in the conversation perhaps it would be useful to mention
the existing ATK , AT-SPI, and gnome-speech API features which might be
used to handle "automatic" language switching.
AtkDocument and AT-SPI's Document interface include a 'documentLocale'
property, which c
> But we should'nt be leaving this to huristic guessing technology. I've
> just raised this in our ODF A11y Wg. If we need ml, I'm sure we'll be
> able to add that for ODF 1.2 and beyond.
Right. It is quite possible to indicate language changes using text
attributes in AT-SPI at least. Content mar
Peter Parente writes:
> > Maybe this is related, maybe not. There was a SoC project last year
> > "guessing language component" for OpenOffice. For example see
> > http://www.mail-archive.com/dev@lingucomponent.openoffice.org/msg00958.html
>
> There's also the universal encoding detector
> (http:/
Peter Parente wrote:
>> Right. The problem is, not a single free engine covers the different
>> languages I need. So I have to change voice and driver (festival and
>> espeak from speech-dispatcher). And don't you get sound device
>> blocking problems?
>
> Understood. We don't support switching of
> Maybe this is related, maybe not. There was a SoC project last year
> "guessing language component" for OpenOffice. For example see
> http://www.mail-archive.com/dev@lingucomponent.openoffice.org/msg00958.html
There's also the universal encoding detector
(http://chardet.feedparser.org/) based on
2007/2/20, Peter Parente <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Tomas wrote
> > I believe that the solution to this would be to:
> > 1. Use the language information wherever possible
Maybe this is related, maybe not. There was a SoC project last year
"guessing language component" for OpenOffice. For example see
> I believe that the solution to this would be to:
> 1. Use the language information wherever possible
> 2. Provide a mechanism to switch the language manually
Hi Tomas,
This is the solution we have implemented in the development version of
LSR, at least for IBM TTS engine as a proof of concept
juan rafael fernández wrote:
> The scenario:
> ---
> A teacher of languages wants TTS in English, Spanish, German, French
> and Italian. Uses Spanish UTF-8 locale.
I believe that such user requirement makes much sense even if you are
not a language teacher. Many people read and write
The scenario:
---
A teacher of languages wants TTS in English, Spanish, German, French
and Italian. Uses Spanish UTF-8 locale.
1.- starts Speech-dispatcher (plus Festival as a server)
Configuration:
* Festival module for English, Italian and Spanish
* eSpeak (1.19) module for German
