[Marble-devel] Chinese Voice for Marble

[Torsten Rahn]

Djuro: Great idea! ;-)

Send a patch!

Best Regards,

Torsten

On Monday, 15. August 2011 12:05:43 Djuro Drljaca wrote:
> (I hope my 3. attempt of sending this email will be successful)
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm not a Marble developer (yet) but from what I see the solution is
> actually quite simple. You need another layer of translation for the word
> order, because this kind of situation will probably also happen in other
> languages.
> 
> At least as far as I see you will need to define all possible combinations
> of turn instructions and then the translators should translate all of them
> individually.
> 
> This would take some time to do, but it would pay off at the end because
> you would get a proper voice turn instructions.
> 
> Regards,
> Djuro Drljaca
> 
> On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 7:29 PM, Torsten Rahn <torsten at kde.org> wrote:
> > Hi Yue Liu,(
> > 
> > On Saturday, 13. August 2011 10:39:10 Yue Liu wrote:
> > > During Desktop Summit I heard that Marble need Chinese voice. I've
> > > found a female contributor who would like to do this, and hopefully
> > > I'll find another friend to do the male voice.
> > 
> > Sounds great :-)
> > 
> > > Anyway the order of concatenated phrases is different in Chinese, how
> > > does Marble handle this problem? Does it sort concatenated phrases in
> > > different languages differently?
> > 
> > I fear that currently there is only a fixed order. We had a similar
> > complaint
> > from the guy who did the finnish version.
> > Please file a bug report about this issue (bugs.kde.org).
> > Our finnish voice contributor was able to come up with a phrase that
> > sticked
> > to the current hardcoded order for the current Marble solution (but of
> > course
> > doesn't sound right) and IIRC he also recorded an alternative version
> > that would be the preferred solution once arbitrary phrase orders are
> > implemented.
> > 
> > Best Regards,
> > Torsten
> > 
> > > Best Regards,
> > > Yue Liu
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