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Re: ISO Language codes and AT

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From: Karl Groves
Date: Nov 24, 2014 10:22AM

I'm interested in the practical level of support for language codes
among ATs. While I'm well aware of the ISO standards for the
languages, I'm ignorant of which standards the ATs actually support
and understand.

Steve Faulkner mentioned that the synthesizer matters more, and
provided reference to eSpeak, which states: "Language voices generally
start with the 2 letter ISO 639-1 code for the language. If the
language does not have an ISO 639-1 code, then the 3 letter ISO 639-3
code can be used."

Unfortunately I can't find similar data for other synthesizers.

On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 12:09 PM, Haritos-Shea, Katie
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> I use these URLs to point developers to use the language tags from either the ISO Language Codes, or the IANA Language Registry.
> ISO (http://www.sitepoint.com/web-foundations/iso-2-letter-language-codes/)
> IANA (http://www.iana.org/assignments/language-subtag-registry/language-subtag-registry)
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