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

[Chi Fu Chim]

Thanks Bruno,

I will give it a try when I have some spare time.

Chi Fu

On 10 June 2010 08:11, Bruno Coudoin <bruno.coudoin at free.fr> wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
> Bruno Coudoin
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