[gcompris-devel] Australian Accent - (audio sound set)

[Bruno Coudoin]

Le lundi 30 juillet 2007 à 15:29 +1000, Campbell Barton a écrit :
> Hi, just wondering if there is voice recordings with an Australian accent?
> 
> The current soundfiles are American and some of the words are not so 
> commonly used in Australia - pronunciation 'zed' vs 'zee' for example.
> If children pronounce 'zee' in Australia or the UK this is considered 
> incorrect English. Other sounds like the letter 'R' are not easy to 
> understand for an Australian because of pronunciation.
> 
> - If not would you be open to accepting some some voice recordings?
> 
> Of course they'd need to be good quality and well spoken etc. is there 
> any preference for adult/child... male/female?
> 
> if a short voice sample is accepted I can go ahead and recurd the full 
> set of words letters etc.
> I have a quality microphone and can normalize/compress/cleanup the 
> sounds for inclusion
> 

No problem for me. I am in vacation for 2 weeks and won't help much from
there. Please note that we can provide a voice set but it must be
complete. We could implement a fallback system like the locale does. I
mean when in Austalia, if a sound is missing we could pick the English
one. Well I don't remember if we do this.

You can send a small sample on the list, possibly with a link to
download it, perhaps you will get some feedback. 

Bruno.