From zerkle Fri Apr 7 02:42:33 1995 Received: by toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu (4.1/UCD.CS.2.6) id AA00272; Fri, 7 Apr 95 02:42:32 PDT Received: from kaukau.comp.vuw.ac.nz by toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu (4.1/UCD.CS.2.6) id AA00265; Fri, 7 Apr 95 02:42:25 PDT Received: from circa.comp.vuw.ac.nz (circa.comp.vuw.ac.nz [130.195.5.12]) by kaukau.comp.vuw.ac.nz (8.6.B/8.6.9-VUW) with ESMTP id VAA07567 for ; Fri, 7 Apr 1995 21:42:00 +1200 From: Francesco Devitt Received: (ffranc@localhost) by circa.comp.vuw.ac.nz (8.6.10/8.6.9-VUW) id VAA14241; Fri, 7 Apr 1995 21:42:16 +1200 Date: Fri, 7 Apr 1995 21:42:16 +1200 Message-Id: <199504070942.VAA14241@circa.comp.vuw.ac.nz> To: announce@cs.ucdavis.edu Subject: REVISE Translator Library (Multilingual-speech version) Errors-To: zerkle@cs.ucdavis.edu X-Server: Zserver v0.90beta Status: RO revise dan 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.