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Created by: null on 26-09-2003 09:54:01 PM
We currently use Audium 3.2.2. We are in the process of adding Spanish support for our applications. To do that, we are adding Spanish prompts wherever necessary. We are not modifying our code. Our code still returns numbers, digits, currency, phone, data, time etc. in English. How do we get Audium to play Say It Smart Audio in Spanish (or any language other than English)? We would prefer not to write our own code. Something along the lines of a "language setting" on the Builder for Say It Smart audio would be great!
Thanks,
Jay Malde
Subject: RE: Say It Smart support for Spanish
Replied by: null on 26-09-2003 11:27:35 PM
Hi Jay,
Audium 3.3 introduced a new feature called Say It Smart plugins that allows a developer to write their own Say It Smart types (using Java) that can be used to support different languages.
In Audium 3.2.2, there are fewer options. Firstly, for romance languages such as Spanish, you may find that many Say It Smart types work fine if you replace the English audio files with Spanish audio files. Digit playback, for example would not need to change because all you need to do is record "uno" to the file 1.wav and it will work fine in exactly the same way as it does with English (types such as phone and currency may also work this way). For more complex types like dates, where the order in which the data is played back may be different than what is done in English (e.g. "the fifth of May" vs. "May 5th"), the only alternative you have is to make a dynamic configuration of the voice element in question. You would then have to cut up the value yourself, convert it to a list of audio files, and add references to these audio files to the appropriate audio group in the dynamic configuration.
So unfortunately, there is no easy solution like clicking a language button, in each case programming would have to be involved.
Hope this helps!
