Mostly an issue for Google Navigation on Droid. It is not possible to change the voice for the application only, as it uses Androids text-to-speech voice. So to change it for the app, we must change it for everything! However, 'Install voice data' is always grayed out due to it already being installed.
Is there any way to change the voice? And if so, is there a compatible database available?
Hmm, is this not possible or just completely unimportant to people?
The TTS engine (according to http://eyes-free.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/documentation/tutorial/tutorial.html) is a port of the eSpeak engine
If you really want to, you can help espeak project to improve or develop new langages.
In the document section of the espeak project you will find informations and tools which should help you...
However, changing the voice for a a generic tts engine, is not so easy (it not like recording "turn left"/"turn right"/... in a application where what should be said is much more limited)
I was confused at first. What you linked to was the documentation for an app already on the Android market. This app uses a eSpeak port. The TTS on the native Android 2.0 OS is called Pico TTS.
The voice files seem easy to find. Navigating with astro, I found system->tts contains several .bins named as languages. Wouldn't changing a voice be as easy as finding the correct way to compile the .bin and then simply replacing the file?
Celeras said:
Hmm, is this not possible or just completely unimportant to people?
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Since somebody is actually asking here, I guess it is important, eh?
Ive been tryin to switch to canadian french too for a while, without success, sadly...
Does anyone know how to compile espeak and the data for android?
The current data is from 2009. Since then, the data has changed a lot and a lot of languages are better pronounced.
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Since somebody is actually asking here, I guess it is important, eh?
Ive been tryin to switch to canadian french too for a while, without success, sadly...
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Canadian French is a dying sub-language, very few people speak it as an only language with the majority of younger people prefer learning English.
'Canadian French is a dying sub-language, very few people speak it as an only language with the majority of younger people prefer learning English.'
I'm sorry Nanan00, but I think you are sadly mistaken. In Canada, Canadian French is not a 'dying sub-language', it is spoken by millions of Canadians, including Anglophones (such as myself). And the 'only language', thing, by which I assume you mean the sole language spoken by an individual, was never in question. BTW, I am a 'young person' as well, and i prefer to speak BOTH og my country's offical languages.
P.S. I'm glad that Texans can make obdurate decisions and conclusions about a foriegn country's national languages. Its shows how worldly you are becoming down there. It also means that I can do that same and state that proper English in America is a dyning sub language, next to all the wonderful tripe passing for English down there. GBA!
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'Canadian French is a dying sub-language, very few people speak it as an only language with the majority of younger people prefer learning English.'
I'm sorry Nanan00, but I think you are sadly mistaken. In Canada, Canadian French is not a 'dying sub-language', it is spoken by millions of Canadians, including Anglophones (such as myself). And the 'only language', thing, by which I assume you mean the sole language spoken by an individual, was never in question. BTW, I am a 'young person' as well, and i prefer to speak BOTH og my country's offical languages.
P.S. I'm glad that Texans can make obdurate decisions and conclusions about a foriegn country's national languages. Its shows how worldly you are becoming down there. It also means that I can do that same and state that proper English in America is a dyning sub language, next to all the wonderful tripe passing for English down there. GBA!
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Canadian French isn't dying, just like Flemish (the variant of Dutch spoken in Belgium) isn't dying. In Belgium, we now haven't got a government for 209 days because in earlier days, the French speaking Belgians didn't want to accept the Flemish as an official language. Flemish was spoken by a majority of people, but the rich people all spoke French. Politicians are now still fighting for the rights of the Dutch speaking. If Brussels (the bilingual capital city) didn't exist, Belgium would long be divided in Wallonia and Flanders. But since Brussels is the only child of the marriage, it is a tough divorce.
Now on topic. The Dutch eSpeak data is far better now than in 2009. So I really need an update. I don't know that much about other languages.
all i know is that i use svox, with the female voice from great britain (yes, it costs 2 bucks or something, but worth it, imho)
it comes through google navigation, because i have selected svox as my primary speech engine. pico just does not sound as good. i did not have to select 'use my settings globally', or whatever it says in there, for svox to be employed in google navigation.
google translate, however, requres the espeak engine. if you turn on the 'use my settings globally' option with svox, and try and use google translate text to speech (i've had to use this occasionally in a hospital setting for english to spanish), then it does not work at all.
hope that helps
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all i know is that i use svox, with the female voice from great britain (yes, it costs 2 bucks or something, but worth it, imho)
it comes through google navigation, because i have selected svox as my primary speech engine. pico just does not sound as good. i did not have to select 'use my settings globally', or whatever it says in there, for svox to be employed in google navigation.
google translate, however, requres the espeak engine. if you turn on the 'use my settings globally' option with svox, and try and use google translate text to speech (i've had to use this occasionally in a hospital setting for english to spanish), then it does not work at all.
hope that helps
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I don't want to rely on proprietary software. And I find it weird, Jonathan works a lot to get the data for all languages OK, and than the data doesn't get ported.
I downloaded Loquendo, an app from the market. It's an alternate voice to text engine for Android and it sounds great. It was $5.99 when I bought it. It's waaay more natural sounding than the robotic stock Pico TTS. You can read more about it here and hear samples of the voice too (only the girl voice is available for android, not the guy voices)
http://tinyurl.com/23zumb5
makes using navigation so much nicer.
"Canadian French is a dying sub-language, very few people speak it as an only language with the majority of younger people prefer learning English."
This is a sad statement, your information is wrong, you don't relay know what 's going on in Canada east provinces, Québec is known as a French speaking province, We have strong french network, School, Collège, university, singning artist in French, Tv, Radio, Computeur, Smart phone with French Canadian speaking software, New Brunswick, Ontario are bilingual province, We find french network in all provinces in Canada, those software like Nuance Dragon, Svox TTS, are software not only French Européen language, also, French Canadian speaking+ reconation languages.
Reminator...
"Since somebody is actually asking here, I guess it is important, eh?
I've been trying to switch to Canadian French too for a while, without success, sadly..."
I want to share my expérience, I did installed google maps/mobile, on N1, before I download SVOX TTS , and set it up to french In google apps, I was glad that the voice speaking was in french (international accent) also for trapster apps + others, but Text To Speach (Pico tts) read up with english pronunciation syllable (bringing confusions), what ever the message/ world was writhing in english or in french .
But the native pico tts or e Speaking tts do not recognize most of the command.
Almost all the (writing/reading) down-loadable application are available in French, as well I have choice of the dictionary, French Canadian or French from France.
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Jipy !
Settle down everyone. Why are we talking about languages?
SVOX also has their own range that is natural speaking, I'm looking for a free one and it seems they have one will report back.
how do you change the pitch of the voice? i saw that screen once but can't find it anymore.
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I downloaded Loquendo, an app from the market. It's an alternate voice to text engine for Android and it sounds great. It was $5.99 when I bought it. It's waaay more natural sounding than the robotic stock Pico TTS. You can read more about it here and hear samples of the voice too (only the girl voice is available for android, not the guy voices)
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I already had this on my phone. So I loaded it on my KF and the demo works like it does on my phone. But I am unable to get it to be used for anything else.
Not sure if there is a hack that can be used to change the default setting to use it.
I use ivona voice for my tts and right now it's in "beta". ( been in beta for years)
the voice I use is british amy on my at&t atrix. that's something you could always try.
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all i know is that i use svox, with the female voice from great britain (yes, it costs 2 bucks or something, but worth it, imho)
it comes through google navigation, because i have selected svox as my primary speech engine. pico just does not sound as good. i did not have to select 'use my settings globally', or whatever it says in there, for svox to be employed in google navigation.
google translate, however, requres the espeak engine. if you turn on the 'use my settings globally' option with svox, and try and use google translate text to speech (i've had to use this occasionally in a hospital setting for english to spanish), then it does not work at all.
hope that helps
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Heh, Victoria! She's great. The most pleasant, natural, and accurate imo. Only problem is, how do we get her in Google Translate? Is there really no way?
First of all, I'll go ahead and apologize in advance for my lack of knowledge.
I purchased a usa tmobile hd2 last week. I was told it could support THAI language. (purchased the phone for my gf)
But, once we took it home - it was not an option. Figuring this was one of the latest phones.. I haven't returned it yet!
however, I have no clue on how to start. I've been reading tutorials but so far.. nothing makes sense.
So my question:
Is there a simple way of adding THAI to this phone?
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what do you want your phone to do? do you want all the language on your phone to read thai or you want to be able to just read your language in certain programs like e-mails. also do you want to be able to input in thai???
please be more specific
^ korean flag.. I'm also korean
anyhow.. figured it out. (somewhat)
found a .cab file that allowed "thai" to be an option under language/region settings.
so, my gf can now read emails from her friends.
Now, I installed a thai keyboard.. but when you send texts or emails, they show up as "?" marks.
Ideally, I think my gf would prefer the entire phone to be in thai
whole phone
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^ korean flag.. I'm also korean
anyhow.. figured it out. (somewhat)
found a .cab file that allowed "thai" to be an option under language/region settings.
so, my gf can now read emails from her friends.
Now, I installed a thai keyboard.. but when you send texts or emails, they show up as "?" marks.
Ideally, I think my gf would prefer the entire phone to be in thai
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there are couple threads on the windows app and developments thread that allows your gf to change every font on her phone to thai. there is also a reg edit you can do to get other languages on your phone. do a quick search. as far as the ? i believe the receiving party's phone has to support other languages. pm me if you need farther assistance. good luck
just type in language support in the search engine
Thai Language on the HTC HD2
Im new to this forum so i can't post any links yet, but if you look for the web site:
w w w . thai-language . c o m
There is a forum discussion with the title 'Thai language on Pocket PC'
and at the bottom of the page, there is a link to a cab file,
Ive tried it on my HTC HD2 (windows mobile 6.5) and its fine on facebook and other websites that contain thai characters.
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Im new to this forum so i can't post any links yet, but if you look for the web site:
w w w . thai-language . c o m
There is a forum discussion with the title 'Thai language on Pocket PC'
and at the bottom of the page, there is a link to a cab file,
Ive tried it on my HTC HD2 (windows mobile 6.5) and its fine on facebook and other websites that contain thai characters.
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Here's the LINK and the cab, for anybody else who wants it (and yes, this version is for WM 6 as well as 5
Looking for FRENCH language support
Do you know if i can find FRENCH support . I want the phone turns completely to french.
thanks for your help
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^ korean flag.. I'm also korean
anyhow.. figured it out. (somewhat)
found a .cab file that allowed "thai" to be an option under language/region settings.
so, my gf can now read emails from her friends.
Now, I installed a thai keyboard.. but when you send texts or emails, they show up as "?" marks.
Ideally, I think my gf would prefer the entire phone to be in thai
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hi.. where to get the .cab file that allowed "thai" to be an option under language/region settings?
thanks
My question is similar. English interface is OK, but I want to be able to input text in Russian and to red text in Russian (in browser/sms/emails) What should I do?
thx
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Hy all,
is it possible to add a language for my phone?
I would translate it, and make everything but I don't know how can it be done.
pdstudio said:
Hy all,
is it possible to add a language for my phone?
I would translate it, and make everything but I don't know how can it be done.
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You'll be surprised how many languages it comes with, try more locale on the market and see if your locale is available
Unfortunately it doesn't come with Indonesian. And am sure there are many other popular languages missing.
So I would like to know a better answer to the question of the OP also.
I want to make hungarian language, 'cause I think its not made for the Legend. I searched it for day and night but I can't find it on the internet. So my straight question is: how to make and add an extra language to my phone?
Hi everyone,
I have a big problem, i don't know what happened, but suddenly the hebrew disapeared from my samsung keyboard. As usual, when I want to input hebrew text, i swype the space bar to switch to hebrew. And two days ago i had lost my hebrew keyboard and all was left was english(US) and french.
So I checked out the languages in the parameters. I still have the hebrew in the menu languages, as well as in the speech recognition from google, but it has disapeared from the input list of the samsung keyboard. actually I found it back in the trash of this list. So thinking I could restore it by downloading it again from the server if it was really deleted I emptied the trash, sadly nothing happened, no new language to download when updating from the server.
Has anyone got a clue ?
I guess hebrew is flagged as deleted somewhere in the parameter files, so it is no longer proposed to download.
Btw, my phone is a Galaxy S4, of course, GT-I9505 JDQ39.I9505XXUBMEA Android 4.2.2 rooted.
Thnks in advance to anyone who might help.
stunned
Hi everyone
So no one can help me, even just give me a hint, I thought you big bunch of android geeks would answer me...lightning speed...
It seems I reached the limit ????:laugh::laugh:
Seriously, i'm in some trouble with this keyboard that's gone. And I dont wanna install third party one just for that...
So please help me.