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Subject: REVISE Translator Library (Multilingual-speech version)
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TITLE
Translator Library (Multilingual-speech version)
VERSION
42.0
AUTHOR
Francesco Devitt
Internet: ffranc@comp.vuw.ac.nz
Telephone: +64 4 388-3215
DESCRIPTION
Features:
o Replaces Commodore's translator.library
o Provides multi-lingual text-to-speech support
o Works with all OS versions
o Allows language to be specified in the text to be translated
With versions of the OS before 2.1 Commodore supplied text-to-speech
software on the Workbench discs. This library replaces the Commodore
supplied translator library. The origional translates text to phonemes
for use with the narrator device. It is used in software with speech
output such as "Say" and "Term".
Unfortunately for non-American users the origional library translates
all text as if it were American English. It can not handle other
languages or dialects.
This library is a drop-in replacement and works with all software that
currently uses the Commodore speech system. With this version of
translator library (version 42.0) the user can specify which language
the translator should use. The following languages/dialects/accents
are supported by this library:
English
American
Italiano
Cymraeg
Maori
Suomi
Not all useful I know. However it is not difficult to write
translation files for other languages with the exception of languages
like English and French which have more exceptions than most. I hope
that users of this system will be motivated to create accent
description files for the language(s) they speak.
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS
Requires any version of the OS greater than 1.3. Some features are
not supported on pre-2.04 systems and systems without the locale
library.
To be of any practical use it requires any version of the narrator
device and software that talks.
AVAILABILITY
Available from Aminet, eg:
ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/pub/aminet/util/libs/translator42.lha (68047)
(Note that this was previously uploaded as "translator.lha" but this
should not be downloaded, not that there were major bugs, just less
features and incorrect documentation! Sorry for the inconvenience.)
PRICE
Free.
DISTRIBUTABILITY
Copyright 1995 Francesco Devitt.
Freely distributable. Donations gratefully received.