It's simple ur TTS is devised for English pronunciation, u need to download the French pronunciation version, the French pronunciation database isn't present, as in the desktop version the TTS engine ( i.e google online) is updated regards Avi
On Feb 5, 3:16 pm, AntonM wrote: > I'm not sure if this is the correct group -- please redirect me if > I should post this elewhere. > > I'm using Google Translate on HTC Desire running Android 2.2. > > When tapping on the speaker icon to listen to translations from English, > e.g., into French, the spoken words are not French at all. The words are > indeed "spoken", but heavily anglicised, as you might expect from someone > who has never seen or heard French -- complete mispronunciation. The > desktop version of course works fine, and speaks the translation correctly > in whatever language should be used. > > I can't remember if the mobile app did work correctly originally, but I > think it did. It hasn't been working correctly for quite a while now, but I > couldn't say exactly how long -- a few months at least, though. > > I installed eSpeak TTS fairly early on in my ownership of the handset, and > recently that started acting up (speaks *very* slowly, and needs to be set > to very fast speech rate to sound even fairly normal and, when used with > Google Navigate, it speaks a list of XML web links (!!??), rather than the > actual directions, and I have no idea where those links would have come > from). I have uninstalled eSpeak TTS, but it makes no difference. > > I also had VLingo installed for about 6 weeks, but uninstalled that when it > conflicted with Svox Classic, which I installed yesterday, so the culprit > couldn't be either of those. > > I acn understand that Svox can't cut it, because I have only one voice > installed (a UK English female), but the gross mispronunciation is also > present when pico TTS is selected as the engine, and was present before Svox > was installed. > > What am I doing wrong? I'm not keen on doing a factory reset if it can be > helped! > > Thanks > > Anton -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "General" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-translate-general?hl=en.
