- From: John Burger <john@mitre.org>
- Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 09:48:56 -0500
- To: www-international@w3.org, ietf-languages@alvestrand.no
Elizabeth J. Pyatt wrote: > Do you really need to specify different types of English used in the > United States territories (e.g. Puerto Rico, Guam, etc). I'm aware > that there are local varieties in some cases, but I'm not sure they > are reflected in the WRITTEN forms, just in pronunciation. That is, > business English is the same in Puerto Rico as in the continental U.S. > Theoretically, you could create a pronunciation/syntax engine for > en-PR as well as en-TX (Texas), en-NYC (New Yawk City), etc, but I'm > not sure how well received it would be as a serious tool. Machine-generated speech is presumably not the only spoken resource that needs language codes. I can imagine labeling a library of recordings of English speakers from lots of places, and thus needing all of en-US-PR, en-US-TX and en-US-NY-NewYorkCity. - John D. Burger MITRE
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