[Freeswitch-users] Language Handling: call for assistance

[João Mesquita]

Guys, I don't know if I really get the problem here. I mean, I do get that
the 2+2 model does not work not even for where I live.
I really hate the fact that all spanish south american dialects (some within
the same country) are put in the same bag as it wouldn't matter to ppl so I
am with you Steve on this one to find an alternative to the 2+2 model.
So, in summary, what I am asking is: What would be the problem with
mod_say_es_ar_ba for Porteño dialect spoken in Buenos Aires, Argentina
besides the verbosity of it and the limited amount of "levels" we have? Do
we know any country that has a sub-dialect from a dialect?

jmesquita

PS: Please, forgive me if I totally misunderstood it. Afterall, I do have I
high fever.

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 8:58 PM, Michael Jerris <mike at jerris.com> wrote:

>
> On Jul 2, 2009, at 7:50 PM, Steve Underwood wrote:
>
> >>
> > If by "the usual way" you mean the standard 2 + 2 letter codes we are
> > used to on computers, that just doesn't work. As I said before, those
> > are for written languages, not spoken languages. There are no standard
> > codes for many spoken languages. For example, the standard codes for
> > Chinese are zh_cn for mainland China, zh_tw for Taiwan, zh_hk for Hong
> > Kong. However, in GuangDong you will probably want to offer
> > Cantonese as
> > well as Mandarin voice prompts, so you will want a zh_gd, or
> > something,
> > which you won't find among the standard 2 + 2 letter codes. That's why
> > the SSML people had a hard time coming up with a language scheme, and
> > SSML 1.0 didn't even reference one. The more you look around the
> > world,
> > the most complex the issue of language variants becomes. If you don't
> > face that at the beginning it just gets messier later on.
> >
> > Steve
>
> Do we know that the language model at least always pairs with the
> first 2 letter code?  So zh_* we can use mod_say_zh for?  or do we
> need to address different language rules for different dialects as well?
>
> Mike
>
>
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