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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: multilingual voice UIRe: multilingual voice UI
From: Daniel Gudlat <gudlat_at_web.de>
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2004 11:16:29 +0200 arnaud wrote: > I'd like to know if Rockbox already supports a multilingual voice > interface, like I presume the "language" option for the scrren > display. As far as I know, starting with the daily builds from April 7, Rockbox does support a multilingual voice interface. > This is because I eventually plan to translate in french the voice > interface. Good. Ideally we should have .voice files for all, or at least most major, languages supported by Rockbox. > so.... , if you can give me some basic information about the process > to create a .voice file. Depends a bit on what OS you use. If it's Windows, Jörg is probably the one to ask for specifics. If it's Linux or something similarly unixoid, that would be me. Generally speaking, you need a working text to speech system configured for the language you want to use (SAPI compatible for Windows, Festival for Linux/Unix), the lame mp3 encoder, and the platform specific tools to generate the voice clips from the .lang file. > btw.... there are in french as well as in other european countries > some special characters such as accented characters. > So I don't know if it can affect the interface in some way, but I > suspect it may affect it because we will have to add some more > characters in the voice file for spelling directories etc. Good point. I don't know whether Jörg's deutsch.voice has the umlauts, or whether the spelling code even supports anything but US ASCII. Jörg, what's the current position on this? > well.... I'm waiting for your suggestions, maybe I should wait a > little bit before to begin to work on this... Hmm, I'd suggest starting on this now, then come back here with any problems you encounter. Voice files for both English and German already exist, so a French one should be possible at least in principle (and barring the above mentioned spelling issue). Greetings, -- Daniel Gudlat _______________________________________________ http://cool.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/rockboxReceived on 2004-04-08 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |