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Idea: language plugins


From: Milan Zamazal
Subject: Idea: language plugins
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:51:25 +0100

>>>>> "BRR" == Bohdan R Rau <ethanak at polip.com> writes:

    BRR> Words like "dd:dd" looks like hour:minute. So we should
    BRR> pronounce "20:07" as "dwudziesta zero siedem". But within
    BRR> sentence "o godzinie 20:07" it should be pronounced as
    BRR> "dwudziestej zero siedem".

    BRR> Roman number "XIX" is pronounced as "dziewi?tna?cie". But
    BRR> within sentence "w XIX wieku" (or even "w XIX w.") it should be
    BRR> pronounced as "dziewi?tnastym", within "od XIX wieku" as
    BRR> "dziewi?tnastego" etc.

    BRR> This library would also use user-defined pronunciation
    BRR> vocabulary.

Please note Speech Dispatcher's job is not to synthesize anything, it
just manages and plays messages.  What you describe is a typical job of
a speech synthesizer so things like this should be implemented (and I'm
even tempted to say "fixed") in the speech synthesizer.

Regards,

Milan Zamazal




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