Michael Collins wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 3:01 AM, Igor Neves <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Hi, > > > Michael Collins wrote: >> Hello all! >> >> There's been some discussion lately on how to handle multiple >> languages, specifically with the *say* application. We would like >> some input from the community on how to handle multiple languages >> and sound files. Anthony notes that the say application needs to >> build the path to the sound files by using the ${sound_prefix} >> and ${lang} variables. Some have asked about countries or >> language variants, like European Portugese vs. Brazilian >> Portugese. These are good questions. > > What it's the problem about Portuguese VS Brazilian? > > Can't we just use "PT_pt" and "PT_br" in ${lang}, just like a lot > of others softwares do? > > What about ${sound_prefix} = ${lang}, since ${lang} should always > be unique, and you make the path's automatically language organized? > > > This is reasonable to me, but it would be nice to have a consensus, > just to be sure. > > > > >> >> >From the community we need input. If you have experience with >> multiple languages in a telephony environment then please give us >> your suggestions. How would you like to see the say application >> handle various languages and dialects? Please give us your >> helpful suggestions. >> >> Thanks, >> Michael > > Sorry if I miss understood something. > Cheers, > > > Believe, the moment we put this into place we will have someone > purporting to be an expert offering a completely new solution. That's > why we asked for input now, before Tony spends a lot of time working > on it. > -MC The PT_pt format is for written languages, rather than spoken languages. There is often a difference.
The SSML 1.1 spec references http://www.ietf.org/rfc/bcp/bcp47.txt as a definition of how to identify a language and accent for speech. I'm not clear if its really works, though. Steve _______________________________________________ Freeswitch-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users UNSUBSCRIBE:http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users http://www.freeswitch.org
