French language with Speech Dispatcher, Speechd-el and DECtalk software 5.0

[Hynek Hanke]

On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 09:36:19AM +0200, Nath wrote:
> i installed Speech dispatcher + Speechd-el + DECtalk software 5.0 : all
> seems to wwork fine but in english only. 
> I have files for DECtalk french language but I don't find how to
> indicate to Speech Dispatcher to use these files in order to have french
> language enabled.

First of all, excuse my late response. I was busy with other things.

It *is* possible to set the language parameter of the Generic output
module that we use for Dectalk. However, the current dectalk
configureation file for the module doesn't support it (it isn't
implemented) because Jacob, who was writing the module, is an English
native speaker.

So, switching languages should be quite trivial, but I currently don't
know how to do it because I don't have a Dectalk software synthesizer
on my machine (it's proprietary after all). Could you plese tell me
how does one set a different language with the "say" line client
that is provided with DecTalk? I might then tell you what you have
to change in the configuration file.

Or does Jacob know something about it?

With Regards,
Hynek