<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Speak uses the speech synthesizer espeak which includes support for adding languages. Here is a place to start:</div><div><a href="http://espeak.sourceforge.net/add_language.html">http://espeak.sourceforge.net/add_language.html</a></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>You may want to contact the espeak developers directly. Their contact info is at the top of this page: <a href="http://espeak.sourceforge.net/">http://espeak.sourceforge.net/</a></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>-josh</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><div>On Jan 28, 2008, at 9:36 PM, David Leeming wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div lang="EN-NZ" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="Section1"><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">I am interested in how to localise the XO for our Pacific Islands region in terms of the Speak activity and speech synthesis generally. Most languages here are phonetic with each letter being pronounced, so it should be simple. Any pointers to how to do this would appreciated.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><b><i>David Leeming<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><i>Technical Advisor, People First Network<o:p></o:p></i></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><i>Honiara, Solomon Islands, South Pacific<o:p></o:p></i></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>Devel mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Devel@lists.laptop.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">Devel@lists.laptop.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel</a><br></div></span></blockquote></div><br></body></html>