TITLE

## Translator Library (Multilingual-speech version)

VERSION

42.3

AUTHOR

Francesco Devitt Internet: ffranc@comp.vuw.ac.nz
Telephone: +64 4 388-3215
Home page: http://www.comp.vuw.ac.nz/~ffranc/amiga/translator.html

DESCRIPTION

New features:

- Recursive rules: right hand sides can be re-translated
- Bugs were fixed

Features:

- Allows language to be specified in the text to be translated
- Replaces Commodore's translator.library
- Provides multi-lingual text-to-speech support
- Works with all OS versions

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 42.1) the user can specify which language the translator should use. The following languages/dialects/accents are supported by this library:

    	English     Deutsch
    	American    Polski
    	Italiano    Svenska
    	Cymraeg     Maori
    	Suomi       Island

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.doc.ic.ac.uk/pub/aminet/util/libs/translator42.lha (81444 bytes)

PRICE

Free.

DISTRIBUTABILITY

Copyright 1995 Francesco Devitt.
Freely distributable. Donations gratefully received.