Re: [Espeak-general] European Portuguese

[Kimus L. <kim...@gm...>]

On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 12:29 +0100, Jonathan Duddington wrote:

> On 23 Jun, Kimus Linuxus <kim...@gm...> wrote:
> 
> > I'm a European Portuguese native speaker. I was testing espeak (in
> > Ubuntu) with (pt and pt-pt) but it doesn't sounds like Portuguese.
> > Maybe near a Brazilian but still not there.
> 
> > Could I help? How?
> 
> Thanks for your interest.  i don't speak or understand Portuguese, so
> improvements can only be made with assistance from Portuguese speakers.
> 
> Listen carefully, and try to identify what sounds wrong.
> 
> Is the problem:
> 
> 1.  Some phonemes (vowel or consonant sounds) are wrong for Portuguese?
> 
> 2.  Errors in the spelling-to-phoneme rules for some words?
> 
> 3.  Something else?
> 


Let's say that my kid doesn't understand a word of the espeak is saying.
That's how much wrong it is :-D

If I find, let's say, a bad spelling word or phoneme, how can I
corrected?
What do I need to try to improve the spelling? What are the first steps
you recommend?

must I have to grab the all source or can I just get the language files
and then compile the language files?

I could help if someone just get me in the right direction.

kimus