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


From: Phil's Free
Subject: French language with Speech Dispatcher, Speechd-el and DECtalk software 5.0
Date: Sun Aug 13 12:52:47 2006

Le mar 08/06/2004 ? 21:36, Nath a ?crit :
> Hynek Hanke <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > 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.
> >
> No problem !
> 
> > 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?
> >
> Ok. The problem is that I tried to find how to tell the "say" program to
> use french but unfortunatly don't find the solution for the moment. so,
> i'll search again and let you know as soon as I found someting. 
> 

To find out any convenient option have you tried :
say --help
say -h
say -?

strings $(which say) | grep -i lang
strings $(which say) | less

My 2 cents.
-- 
Phil




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