Re: Switching languages in Gnopernicus, is it possible?

[Peter Korn <Peter Korn Sun COM>]

Hi Krister,

> Hi, i use Festival right now for my software synth in Gnome 2.6. Would 
> it at all be possible to switch languages using Festival and the Mbrola 
> voices, one of them is a swedish voice that i sould like to use. How 
> would this be accomplished if it's possible at all?
> Thanks for any help on this matter.

I don't think so.  The job of generating speech can be roughly broken down 
into two parts: turning the ASCII/Unicode characters into phonemes (and adds 
prosidy and a bunch of other things); and turning the phonemes into a sound 
wave.  Festival does both for English.  Mbrola does only the latter part for a 
bunch of languages.  In order to use Mbrola, you need software the converts 
the text characters into phonemes for Swedish.


Regards,

Peter Korn
Sun Accessibility team