Language selection in speechd-el

[Pierre Lorenzon]

Hi Milan,

From: Milan Zamazal <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden
Subject: Re: Language selection in speechd-el
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:02:18 +0100

> >>>>> "PL" == Pierre Lorenzon <devel at pollock-nageoire.net> writes:
> 
>     PL> But anyway, there are also cases where the buffer is monolingual
>     PL> and where there are several pieces with different status and it
>     PL> will be very good to have an idea of these various status
>     PL> through a speech difference. The situation can be language
>     PL> independant. For instance in a w3m.el buffer somme pieces are
>     PL> url, clickable buttons and so on.
> 
> Well, I'm not sure I've understood you correctly.  Do you mean the input
> method language is not respected when *any* voice is assigned to the
> given face or only when a voice with language property set is assigned
> to the face?  In the first case it would be a bug (I tried it and it
> works correctly for me, i.e. face without language property set doesn't
> override input method language).  In the latter case, do you really want
> to set a language explicitly for a particular voice and then to override
> it with input method language selection (it looks a bit odd, any example
> of real use)?

  I did not know that it is possible to define a voice witout
  language property. When I define a voice through customizing
  speechd-voices variable I notice that the language field does
  not seem to be mandatory (as others are) but if I leave it
  blank, obtained voice is simply mute ! Sure what I need is
  voice without language property so that it inherit it from
  the "ambient" settings but I don't know how to proceed ! Is
  there a special code like "fr" "en" meaning that the property
  is empty ? I didn't find anything like that in the
  documentation. 

  Bests

  Pierre