symbolic voice-types versus synthesis voices

[Andrei Kholodnyi]

>> I just thought that we might probably map names to something like
>> "spd-voice-NN" or "male-en-NN",
>> which is not much worser than e.g. "english-us" :D,
>
> I'm not sure if you mean this for some sort of internal identifiers or names 
> exposed to the user.

yes, I meant names exposed to the user. However "native" synth names
are fine as well.

> Client:
> ?LIST VOICES
> Server:
> ?1 Samantha
> ?2 Serena
> Client:
> ?VOICE PROPERTIES 1
> Server:
> ?LANG: en
> ?VARIANT: US
> ?GENDER: female
> ?AGE: 25

why do we need a 2-steps approach?

Client:
LIST VOICES
Server:
1 Samantha en US female 25
2 Serena en UK female 25

this should be sufficient.

we can also request something like
LIST VOICES LANGUAGE=en GENDER=female