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

[Gilles Casse]

Hello,

I fear we can't select the language using the original say software from Fonix.
So I have rewritten it so that Nath can use it in french via Speech-Dispatcher. 
A new option has been added to select the language (e.g. for spanish "-l es" ). 
At the moment, the default language is french :-).

However, I meet an issue when typing french characters under Emacs:
For example, the c cedilla (0xe7) seems to crash the output module.
When I type:
fran?ais

each character is spelled until the 'n'

Files dtk-speak.txt [1] and /var/log/speechd.log [2] are copied at the end of 
this post.

If the person who worked on the DECtalk software integration is interested in 
testing other languages, I am sure Fonix will send them to him for free. Since 
I have been told that their politic is to supply the additional expected 
languages, once the core file has been bought.

Thanks for your help,

Gilles

[1] /tmp/dtk-speak.txt
[:np][:ra 338][:dv ap 225]
n

[2] /var/log/speechd.log 
[Thu Jun 10 12:56:17 2004] speechd: Output locked...
[Thu Jun 10 12:56:17 2004] speechd: Output unlocked.
[Thu Jun 10 12:56:17 2004] speechd: Output locked...
[Thu Jun 10 12:56:17 2004] speechd: Output locked...
[Thu Jun 10 12:56:17 2004] speechd:   Broken pipe to module.
[Thu Jun 10 12:56:17 2004] speechd:   Output module working status: 0 
(pid:28112)
[Thu Jun 10 12:56:17 2004] speechd:  Output module terminated abnormally, 
probably crashed.
[Thu Jun 10 12:56:17 2004] speechd: Output unlocked.
[Thu Jun 10 12:56:17 2004] speechd:  Error: Output module failed
[Thu Jun 10 12:56:17 2004] speechd:   Output module working status: 3 (pid:0)
[Thu Jun 10 12:56:17 2004] speechd:   Broken pipe to module.
[Thu Jun 10 12:56:17 2004] speechd:   Output module working status: 0 
(pid:28112)
[Thu Jun 10 12:56:17 2004] speechd:  Output module terminated abnormally, 
probably crashed.
[Thu Jun 10 12:56:17 2004] speechd: Output unlocked.
[Thu Jun 10 12:56:17 2004] speechd: Output locked...
[Thu Jun 10 12:56:17 2004] speechd: Output unlocked.
[Thu Jun 10 12:56:17 2004] speechd: Output locked...
[Thu Jun 10 12:56:17 2004] speechd:  Can't find default output module or it's 
not working!
[Thu Jun 10 12:56:17 2004] speechd:   Broken pipe to module.
[Thu Jun 10 12:56:17 2004] speechd:   Output module working status: 0 
(pid:28112)
[Thu Jun 10 12:56:17 2004] speechd:  Output module terminated abnormally, 
probably crashed.
[Thu Jun 10 12:56:17 2004] speechd: Output unlocked.
[Thu Jun 10 12:56:17 2004] speechd:  Error: Output module failed
[Thu Jun 10 12:56:17 2004] speechd:   Output module working status: 3 (pid:0)


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