[gcompris-devel] Gcompris British (en_gb) voice (not American)

[Bruno Coudoin]

Le mercredi 09 juin 2010 à 17:21 +0100, Chi Fu Chim a écrit :
> Hi All,
> 
> I like Gcompris and introduce it to people when possible.

Good to hear from our marketing team ;)

> Being in the UK, I find the American English voice to be a turn off for many
> people. Those not from the UK probably do not find this an issue (or even
> hear the differences) with the English sounds as people around the world are
> probably more used to the American way of pronunciations and voice patterns.
> Since Gcompris is aimed at young children, people here would like a more
> British sounding voice.
> 
> I am wondering is there someone already recording British sounds for
> Gcompris?

Not to my knowledge.

> If not, I might see about giving it a go (need to find someone with a good
> standard English accent first, there are so many different accents here),
> but do not want to duplicate work if someone else is already doing it.
> 
> I assume I just need to record all the words in the voices folder with the
> same file names and send them to the developer team.

Yes.

> One problem this will introduce is that the GB flag is used for English in
> the settings, an American flag will need to be introduced to differentiate
> between the two voices; probably should have a separate American setting
> anyway as some words are spelt differently.

Hum, we already have an entry in our configuration dialog for en_US and
we removed the flags all together because they could be misleading. So
all you have to do is put your voices in an en_GB directory and you are
done.  

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