Re: [Espeak-general] Portugal / Brazil

[Bruno R. <ru...@st...>]

Thanks for the reply. Answers below.

On 01/14/2012 01:14 AM, Jonathan Duddington wrote:
> On 14 Jan, Bruno Ruviaro<ru...@st...>  wrote:
>
>> I just downloaded and am trying it on Ubuntu.
>> It sounds to me the default pronunciations of Portuguese from
>> "Portugal" and "Brazil" (accessible from the drop-down menu of the
>> GUI) are actually switched. "Portugal" sounds like Brazilian, and
>> "Brazil" sounds like a Portuguese from Portugal.
> Which version of Ubuntu ?
10.04 (Lucid)

> eSpeak does not have a GUI (unless you are using the "espeakedit"
> program), so some other program is providing the GUI which you are
> using.  Perhaps the error is in this other program.
I see. In fact, I am using a GUI called "espeak-gui 0.2" by Pujals & 
Burnmeister, which was downloadable from the repositories.

> Please try this test.  From a command window do these three commands,
> and:
>
> espeak -v pt-pt 7
>
> espeak -v pt-br 7
>
> espeak -v pt 7
>
> These should speak the number "7" with the Portugal voice, then the
> Brazil voice, and then the general Portuguese voice, which should be
> Brazillian.
>
> Try changing "7" to a word which should sound different in the two
> voices.
>
> This will confirm whether the problem is with eSpeak, or some other
> program.

The command line sounds correct. The problem is in fact with the GUI I 
was using. Thanks for clarifying!!

All best,

Bruno

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