Code of supported languages and level
of speek quality:
en English
is the standard default English voice.
af Afrikaans
This has been worked on by native speakers and it
should be OK.
bs Bosnian
Usable, but I'm unsure whether wrong stressed
syllables are a
problem. It accepts both Latin and Cyrillic characters. This voice is
similar to sr Serbian and hr Croatian
ca Catalan
cs Czech
Usable.
de German
This has improved from easlier versions. A problem
is stress
placement (which like English is irregular), prosody, and the use of
compound words where correct detection of the sub-word boundaries would
probably be needed for accurate pronunciation.
el Greek
Stress position is marked in text and spelling is
fairly regular,
so it shouldn't be too bad. It uses a different alphabet and switches
to English pronunciation for words which contain Latin characters a-z.
eo Esperanto
Esperanto has simple and regular pronunciation
rules, so it should be OK.
es Spanish
Spanish has good spelling rules, so it should be OK.
es-la Spanish - Latin America
This contains a few changes from es, notably the
pronunciation of "z","ce","ci".
fi Finnish
This has had assistance from native speakers and
should be usable.
fr French
This has been improved by a native speaker, and
should be OK.
hr Croatian
Usable, but I'm unsure whether wrong stressed
syllables are a
problem. It accepts both Latin and Cyrillic characters. This voice is
similar to sr Serbian and bs Bosnian
hu Hungarian
This has had assistance from a native speaker and it
should be OK.
it Italian
This has had some feedback from a native speaker but
more work is
needed. Spelling is fairly regular, but stress marks and vowel accents
are often omitted from text, so for some words the
dictionary/exceptions list will need to determine the stress position
or whether to use open/close [e] or [E] and [o] or [O].
ku Kurdish
Not much work yet, but Kurdish has good spelling
rules so it should be OK.
lv Latvian
This has had assistance from a native speaker and it
should be OK.
pl Polish
Usable.
pt Portuguese (Brazil)
Brazilian Portuguese. This has had assistance from a
native speaker
and it should be OK. Like Italian there is further work to do about the
ambiguity in the spelling between open/close "e" and "o" vowels.
pt-pt Portuguese (European)
ro Romanian
Probably OK. More work is needed to improve the
position of stress within words.
sk Slovak
This has had assistance from a nativ speaker, so it
should be OK.
sr Serbian
Usable. Wrong stressed syllables may be a problem.
It accepts both
Latin and Cyrillic characters. This voice is similar to hr Croatian and
bs Bosnian
sv Swedish
This has now had some work done on the pronunciation
rules, so it should be useable.
sw Swahihi
Not much feedback yet, but the spelling and stress
rules are fairly regular, so it's probably usable.
ta Tamil
Not much work yet, but I'm told it sounds
reasonable.
tr Turkish
Not much work yet,
but I'm told it sounds
reasonable.
