Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!rutgers!cbmvax!cbmehq!cbmger!peterk From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: For all you who want more advertizing Message-ID: <561@cbmger.UUCP> Date: 2 Nov 90 14:28:05 GMT References: <1990Oct24.030917.18454@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> <693@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz> <545@cbmger.UUCP> Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) Organization: Commodore Bueromaschinen GmbH, West Germany Lines: 20 >7:30AM and it's 1:45AM now] It's two things: 1. You definitely would need at least some additional phonemes that are just not existing in the current narrator. And if you want to die gracefully, you could optimize ALL phonemes for every language you may want to implement. (I would very much like to at least try this way of upgrading by only adding few phonemes.) 2. What you would need in every case is a translator for every language. Here are the biggest differences in languages how they translate from written text to speech. But this is comparably a much simpler task than doing a narrator. I know of several attempts where this has already been done with the old narrator and languages like German and Italian (perhaps some more), and this was done by non-linguists with considerable success (well, I'm not talking of my solution :-). -- Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel // E-Mail to \\ Only my personal opinions... Commodore Frankfurt, Germany \X/ {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!cbmger!peterk