Re: Work aroun for "say" in Portuguese language.
Re: Work aroun for "say" in Portuguese language.
- Subject: Re: Work aroun for "say" in Portuguese language.
- From: Walter Ian Kaye <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 18:14:58 -0700
At 08:30p -0300 07/31/2004, Bernardo Hoehl / Gessos Rutenium didst
inscribe upon an electronic papyrus:
Hi List!
As most of us know Mac Os's "speech" only speaks english language.
That is true, according to <
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/
QuickTime/INMAC/SOUND/imintrosound.8.htm>:
Because a synthesizer can be associated with only one language and region,
your application would need to create a separate speech channel to process
each language in bilingual or multilingual text. (Currently, however, only
English-producing synthesizers are available.)
Any attempt to have it to speak other languages envolves a lot of
mispelling, and a poor result.
Most of my AppleScripts are running on brazilian user's computers.
It is desirable to have my applets to "speak" portuguese language.
I recon that there are hundreds of different ways of achieving this.
But would like to read your thoughts before getting to work on it.
Maybe modePhonemes mode would work?
say "[[inpt PHON]]+\\kOW=/n1AX=\\nEY" --Hawaiian 'konane'
say "[[inpt TEXT]]konane"
It's not pretty, and you won't get trilled Rs (unless you use 'd' I
guess), but you basically have to trick an American English-speaking
computer into simulating portuguese speech.
Speech Channel Modes:
<
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Carbon/Reference/
Speech_Synthesis_Manager/speech_synthesis/constant_5.html>
I'm still looking for a phoneme reference... ah, here we go:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/mac/Sound/Sound-201.html
Have fun!
-boo
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