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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: french voice updatedRe: french voice updated
From: arnaud <netcava_at_club-internet.fr>
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 12:53:42 +0200 > >> Actually, it now uses IBM Viavoice Outloud for the voice, I really >> prefer it, at least it pronounces all the stuff the same. > >I don't know this program, so I can't comment on the input it needs. it's actually a speech engine Sapi 4 compatible. I use a shareware called textsound to batch convert text files to wav, it's more stable and maybe faster than Textaloud >I have a "lang2textaloud" program in my webspace to make a TextAloud input >file. This is my "older style" of generating these, and still my fallback >for SAPI4 voices (like the only german one I have). The newer program >"lang2wav" does directly generate a bunch of wav files, using the configured >default SAPI5 voice. No need for scripting then. (Well, I use a cmd file >afterwards for the batch encoding.) yes I have seen. Have to check your lang2textaloud program to see how it operates. > >> btw... where can I find the latest version of the english.lang file? > >Always in cvs. You can do a read-only access to Sourceforge, or simple >download a source tarball from the daily build page. ok. Sorry for my ignorance on this, I don't know the Open Source way of doing / sharing things :-) > >> I wrote Jörg but I guess he's maybe in vacation or he's busy doing >> something else. > >I think I answered you... >You're right, I have been on a short trip the last 2 days. no problem > >> btw.... >> I don't know how to represent accented characters for the spelling in >> the francais.lang file. > >Ah, you meant the spelling when asking for accents, now I understand. This >is not possible because the code only spells A-Z and numbers. You can't >simply introduce new voice IDs in the language file, Rockbox has to use >those, too. I don't want to localize the code itself, so this is currently >inresolved. (Like the number composition.) ok > >Can you submit your francais.lang file as a patch, so you changes can go >into the official version? ok. I guess I really have to register on sourceforge to do this? Have a nice day. -------------------- Arnaud de Bonald - Paris, France - Sysop Netcava BBS http://www.netcava.net _______________________________________________ http://cool.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/rockbox Received on 2004-04-18 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |