[nvda] Re: to the developer of ESpeak

Josh, I've lived in Ireland, and indeed tried to learn the language, but I'm afraid it's one language that defeated me completely when trying to learn it from a book. The spelling isn't any more literal than English is - at least to a stranger it isn't. Another problem I can foresee is that there are several sounds for some of the consonants, such as D and T, as there are in Indian languages, and it may be hard to reproduce these. Goodness knows what kind of hot water you could get into if you get that wrong. I think it would be pretty hard but not impossible to come up with a Gaelic voice.
I've come across some references to Gaelic text-to-speech by Googling for them, but only proposals and prototypes and that sort of thing. Same for Scottish Gaelic (pronounced Gallic).
The reasons for this are possibly that Gaelic is not going to have a very big audience. While Welsh is thriving, sadly the other so-called Celtic languages are having a pretty hard time. 

Vince.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Josh zxc" <jkenn337@xxxxxxxxx> 
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Hi,

The reason why I would like to see ESpeak be able to read Irish Gaelic
is so that I can read the teach yourself Irish book that I got and
scanned in. I emailed some people in Ireland and really got no
response back. My wife said that 6 or so years ago she knew someone
who studdied Irish, but I wonder how this person could have really
read Irish text on the computer without an Irish text to speech
synthesizer? I believe that Irish is largely phonetic, according to
the pronunciation guide I saw on wikipedia.

Josh
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