On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Rafael Ortiz <raf...@laptop.org> wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 8:20 AM, Chris Leonard <cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 5:57 AM, samy boutayeb <s.bouta...@free.fr> wrote: >> > Hi all, >> > >> > In the Speak activity, the drop-down list of the languages is >> > incoherent. >> > Some language names listed may be edited via Pootle in speak.po, whereas >> > other (as EN:"Ancient greek") are translated incorrectly ( FR:"Grec >> > ancient", to be replaced by FR:"Grec ancien"). >> > >> > Apparently, the file speak.po is incomplete, and the list can't be >> > updated. For instance, there is no string "Ancient greek" in this file. >> > >> > Could somebody fix this issue? >> > >> > >> >> Samy, >> >> I'll take a look, but I think the lsit of languages available for >> Speak is limited by the set of voice files created for e-speak. >> >> http://espeak.sourceforge.net/languages.html >> > +1, if the language is not there, probably it won't be any difference on > translating it.
It seems like the only thing to do would be to engage with the espeak upstream http://espeak.sourceforge.net/ and work with them to improve "voice" localization. A variety of Activities besides Speak use the espeak engine (including Memorize and Jigsaw-Puzzle), so upstream improvements would benefit more than just Speak. cjl _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
