Oolite Bulletins

On the Usenet alt.fan.elite, Sid wrote:

Is it possible to slow down the synthesised speech when using other
languages? English is not too bad, but Latvian sounds terrible.

Anyone?

Well, there's a bunch of options for espeak:

http://espeak.sourceforge.net/voices.html

Putting stressLength inside Resources\espeak-data\voices\lv & playing around with it should eventually provide the best fit...

Not being Latvian, I wouldn't know which settings would give the best results, though...

Also note that many of the not so common languages have relatively poor support and/or are in testing. Do not expect something that works out of the box if it's not English, German, Italian etc.. In fact, we have already separated plenty of these "test" languages from the distribution of the next Oolite version for this very reason.

Have posted Kaks' and A_C's comments to the Usenet thread.