On Jul 2, 2009, at 7:50 PM, Steve Underwood wrote: >> > If by "the usual way" you mean the standard 2 + 2 letter codes we are > used to on computers, that just doesn't work. As I said before, those > are for written languages, not spoken languages. There are no standard > codes for many spoken languages. For example, the standard codes for > Chinese are zh_cn for mainland China, zh_tw for Taiwan, zh_hk for Hong > Kong. However, in GuangDong you will probably want to offer > Cantonese as > well as Mandarin voice prompts, so you will want a zh_gd, or > something, > which you won't find among the standard 2 + 2 letter codes. That's why > the SSML people had a hard time coming up with a language scheme, and > SSML 1.0 didn't even reference one. The more you look around the > world, > the most complex the issue of language variants becomes. If you don't > face that at the beginning it just gets messier later on. > > Steve
Do we know that the language model at least always pairs with the first 2 letter code? So zh_* we can use mod_say_zh for? or do we need to address different language rules for different dialects as well? Mike _______________________________________________ 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
