[Freeswitch-users] Language Handling: call for assistance

[Michael Collins]

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 3:01 AM, Igor Neves <igor at 3gnt.net> wrote:

>  Hi,
>
> Michael Collins wrote:
>
> Hello all!
>
> There's been some discussion lately on how to handle multiple languages,
> specifically with the *say* application. We would like some input from the
> community on how to handle multiple languages and sound files. Anthony notes
> that the say application needs to build the path to the sound files by using
> the ${sound_prefix} and ${lang} variables. Some have asked about countries
> or language variants, like European Portugese vs. Brazilian Portugese. These
> are good questions.
>
>
> What it's the problem about Portuguese VS Brazilian?
>
> Can't we just use "PT_pt" and "PT_br" in ${lang}, just like a lot of others
> softwares do?
>
> What about ${sound_prefix} = ${lang}, since ${lang} should always be
> unique, and you make the path's automatically language organized?
>

This is reasonable to me, but it would be nice to have a consensus, just to
be sure.


>
>
>
> >From the community we need input. If you have experience with multiple
> languages in a telephony environment then please give us your suggestions.
> How would you like to see the say application handle various languages and
> dialects? Please give us your helpful suggestions.
>
> Thanks,
> Michael
>
>
> Sorry if I miss understood something.
> Cheers,
>

Believe, the moment we put this into place we will have someone purporting
to be an expert offering a completely new solution. That's why we asked for
input now, before Tony spends a lot of time working on it.
-MC
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