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<DIV>that's why we are trying to put the enum in there for what we are counting.</DIV>
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<DIV>in the say_type_t we would add</DIV>
<DIV>SST_CHICKENS, SST_SPEAKERS, etc....</DIV>
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<DIV>That way we have a hint how to generate the audio</DIV>
<DIV>this finite list may be limiting but it's ok to submit patches</DIV>
<DIV>adding more are more objects as we figure out all the differnt items</DIV>
<DIV>that modify speech.</DIV>
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<DIV>Any elaboration on this? it seemed to be the only logical</DIV>
<DIV>way to solve that issue but it may need more.</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">----- Original Message ----<BR>From: Yossi Neiman <iaxteling@cartissolutions.com><BR>To: freeswitch-dev@lists.freeswitch.org<BR>Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 12:23:23 PM<BR>Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-dev] [Freeswitch-users] C SAY API<BR><BR>
<DIV>Gender can even be more complex in some languages than others. While to <BR>the best of my knowledge, Romance languages do not have a concept of <BR>numbers matching gender with the object they are modifying, at least <BR>Hebrew (and possibly other Semitic languages) do have this concept. So <BR>if I say the "7 cars" versus "7 speakers", it comes out different - <BR>"shevA michoniyot" versus "shivAh ramkolim". <BR><BR>Additionally, some languages might handle the order of quantity to <BR>object differently based upon the amount. Again, citing an example from <BR>Hebrew, if you say "1 speaker" the order is reversed - "ramkol eHad" (if <BR>you catch it, "ramkol" means "speaker" as in the one hooked up to your <BR>stereo).<BR><BR>--<BR><BR>Yossi Neiman<BR>Cartis Solutions, Inc. - <A href="http://www.cartissolutions.com/" target=_blank>http://www.cartissolutions.com</A><BR><BR><BR><BR>Peter Nixon wrote:<BR><BR><snip snip><BR>>
Unfortunately that is not the only issue however. Turkish for example (the <BR>> only language other than English that I am close to fluent in at present) <BR>> has no concept of gender. (You don't specify someone as "he" or "she", <BR>> simply as "that"). On the other hand French has a gender for every object, <BR>> not just living things! The structure of pronouncing numbers also varies of <BR>> course... Do you pronounce "13" as "thirteen" or as "ten three". What <BR>> about "113" and "1113"? (Actually English probably has the most insane rules <BR>> for pronouncing numbers of all the languages I have come across) Many <BR>> languages also (Turkish included) require that both pronunciation and/or <BR>> spelling be changed depending on the preceeding or following word to make <BR>> the pronunciation more "musical" or smoother. ("K" gets changed to "soft G" <BR>> for example to avoid "harshness" in the middle of a
sentence).<BR>><BR>> All of these little difference can crop up in surprisingly short, simple <BR>> phrases making the job of such an API more complex that you might initially <BR>> imagine :-)<BR>><BR>> Cheers<BR>> <BR>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Freeswitch-dev mailing list<BR>Freeswitch-dev@lists.freeswitch.org<BR><A href="http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-dev" target=_blank>http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-dev</A><BR>UNSUBSCRIBE:<A href="http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-dev" target=_blank>http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-dev</A><BR><A href="http://www.freeswitch.org/" target=_blank>http://www.freeswitch.org</A></DIV></DIV><BR></DIV></div><br>__________________________________________________<br>Do You Yahoo!?<br>Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has
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