In article <20060822215800.GA1014 at localhost.localdomain>, Gregory Nowak <greg at romuald.net.eu.org> wrote: > I meant just in general, but some examples are a U.S. accent to the > English speech, I don't speak American, so someone else will need to do that :-) > more voices, I wonder whether anyone uses any of the English voice variants other than the standard? Feel free to experiment with attributes in the espeak-data/voices files, as described in docs/voices.html, and let me know if anyone comes up with a good sounding variant. > and I guess support for more languages just to name a few, > though like I said, I think it's very useable now as is. It would also > be nice if it were possible to have full numbers pronounced as > one-hundred-sixty-eight, instead of one-hundred-and-sixty-eight. That's an easy one! Here's a modified espeak-data/en-dict file (for eSpeak version 1.11) that says "one-hundred-sixty-eight". Is that how you say it, or is it just for convenience with being shorter? http://espeak.sourceforge.net/test/numbers_2.zip I don't expect everyone would want it, but there's a mechanism to have variant pronunciations of words, or variant pronunciation rules, controlled by an attribute in a voice file, so I could set that up for numbers in the next release.
