1294468 - Provide more specific lang names for Linux voices

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Web Speech, defect)

Description

[Eitan Isaacson [:eeejay]]

Currently the Linux espeak voices have non-standard language tags as names, such as english_wmids.

This leads to us having several en-GB voices when in truth each of those voices is a variant in that locale.

We should provide more accurate bcp47 names when possible.

Comment 1

[guest271314]

Related https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1437422

Comment 2

[Eitan Isaacson [:eeejay]]

Attachment: Bug 1294468 - Remove variant name from language string. r?smaug

In recent version of espeak-ng/speechd the language field is accurate
and doesn't need to be amended with the variant field.

The variant field seems to be the speaker's name which we don't have an
equivalent field for in the DOM voice object.

On my system speech-dispatcher lists 109 languages and 79 "variants".
It then applies each variant (eg. Denis, Boris, Steph) to each language
resulting in 8,611 voices.

Comment 3

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/5b393319f9dd
Remove variant name from language string. r=smaug

Comment 4

[Marian-Vasile Laza]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/5b393319f9dd