<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>There is a pulldown menu that lets you pick any accent that espeak supports (minus a few that don't produce sound). If you want to select one of those as your default, you can configure Speak any way you want (eyes, mouth, etc) and then press Keep. Resuming that entry in the Journal will restore those settings.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>-josh</div><br><div><div>On Mar 8, 2008, at 11:50 AM, Ixo X oxI wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Although.. :) I would be really neat if this was settable as a user option, inside speak too.<br><br>Example, In locale of US or UK, tune to speak with French accent or vice versa . :)<br><br>Or in non-english locales, tune to english to learn english speaking ? <br> <br>-Ixo<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/3/8 Joshua Minor <<a href="mailto:j@lux.vu">j@lux.vu</a>>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div style=""><div>Great. This seems to be working. I've updated Speak to v5.</div><div><br></div><div>-josh</div><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br><div><div>On Mar 8, 2008, at 8:47 AM, Walter Bender wrote:</div> <br><blockquote type="cite">$LANG should do the trick. If you want to experiment, try using sugar-control-panel to set the language.<br><br>-walter<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Joshua Minor <<a href="mailto:j@lux.vu" target="_blank">j@lux.vu</a>> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I'm trying to make Speak pick its default accent based on the native<br> language of the laptop (per Walter's request <a href="http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6656" target="_blank">http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6656</a><br> ) This is a bit different from normal localization - although I<br> need to do that also - because it is not just replacing strings. My<br> guess is that I can just look at the environment variable $LANG and<br> pick an accent with a similar ISO 639 language code.<br> <br> Can anyone confirm that using $LANG is appropriate for this?<br> <br> Also, aside from just setting $LANG to something else, how can I test<br> that this actually works?<br> <br> -josh<br> <br> _______________________________________________<br> Devel mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:Devel@lists.laptop.org" target="_blank">Devel@lists.laptop.org</a><br> <a href="http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel" target="_blank">http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel</a><br> </blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Walter Bender<br>One Laptop per Child<br><a href="http://laptop.org" target="_blank">http://laptop.org</a></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br> Devel mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:Devel@lists.laptop.org">Devel@lists.laptop.org</a><br> <a href="http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel" target="_blank">http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel</a><br> <br></blockquote></div><br></blockquote></div><br></body></html>