On 30 Apr, Luke Yelavich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am packaging espeak 1.23 for gutsy at this moment, which appears to > have a russian voice. Jonathan, if this is not the complete set, > please let me know, so I can include the russian voice, to possibly > try and get wider testing.
The Russian language has a problem. There is no way to tell from the spelling which syllable has the main stress in a word. So Russian needs a large dictionary which holds this information. It doesn't affect which phonemes a word translates into, only the position of the stress. I don't want to include this information in the main eSpeak distribution, because it's large and it's of no use except to someone who wants Russian text-to-speech synthesis. This extra data is available on the espeak.sourceforge.net site, and is referenced from the entry for "Russian" in docs/languages.html. In the future, other languages may have the same problem. For example, languages which use ideograms (eg. Chinese) would also need a large dictionary. Perhaps we need to identify which words are needed to be spoken during system startup and installation, and include them in the basic set of eSpeak data, but leave the main dictionary for such languages in an additional package? Regarding Ubuntu Gutsy and eSpeak 1.23. I've had feedback recently for the first time for Greek and Czech, and these voices have now been improved since 1.23. Also Cleverson told me to ask him for the latest Brazilian and European Portuguese changes when I'm ready for the next release. I've just sent him an email request. So, if you want to wait a couple of days, I'll make a version 1.24. -- eSpeak in Russian https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/82015 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
