I am building an application where there is a need for have Text To Speech.
The primary users will be Dutch, in the beginning. So I am looking for TTS with Dutch support.
Google Translate offer Dutch as an alternative, but I would like to use the TTS Watson service on Bluemix.
According to the Text-to-Speech documentation, the service supports plain text in the following languages:
English
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Spanish
Brazilian Portuguese
Unfortunately, Dutch is not a supported language for input. We are always looking for ways to improve out services so feel free to submit a IBM Bluemix Idea for future consideration by Bluemix/Watson Project Management.
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I am looking for an easy solution to launching feature of my app through the "App Action" feature of Google Assistant.
I found info about built-in intents such as actions.intent.OPEN_APP_FEATURE, but locale is limited to English. Does this mean it only support English utterance? If it is only supports English, can you help me how to use it using German?
As documented here, the actions.intent.OPEN_APP_FEATURE is currently only available in the following locales:
en-US
en-GB
en-CA
en-IN
en-BE
en-SG
en-AU
If the locale you want isn't supported - there isn't anything you can do, really. You can try creating a conversational action that will, at some point in the conversation, offer a link that will trigger your app, but this works outside the App Action framework.
Is it possible to develop for Actions on Google in Brazilian Portuguese?
Thank you!
Updated - 15 Nov 2017
Google just announced that pt-BR is now a supported locale.
Original Answer
Not yet. They recently announced that French, Spanish, "and other languages" would be available later this year, but no specific time frame has been announced.
It depends on what you expect. You can use Brazilian Portuguese to :
Develop applications on API.AI
Develop applications only for test purposes in Actions on Google
Test your application through the simulator by typing your requests in brazilian portuguese in the simulator.
But what you can't do for now :
Use localization to localize your application in Brazilian portuguese (as the simulator does not provide the ability to have a pt-BR localized device)
Test your application in Brazilian portuguese on your Google Home device or using voice in the Simulator
So if you want to develop an application in Brazilian Portuguese in order to be ready when the language will be available, nothing is impossible. But there are several limitations.
Google Assistant seems to be rolling out to Android phones in Germany starting today (at least if they have the beta version of the Google app).
Are "Actions on Google" also supported in the German language, and if not, when is that going to come? I just tried to invoke some actions and it didn't work. Or was I just using the wrong phrase?
There are two issues here:
Actions on Google are not (yet) supported on a Google Assistant besides the Google Home.
Actions on Google and Google Home are not (yet) supported in anything besides English.
Update: May 2017
At Google I/O, they made two announcements relevant to this:
Actions on Google are now available through the Assistant available on Android and iOS, not just Home.
Actions aren't (yet) available in anything besides en-US. They've announced that en-GB, French, and German will be available "later this year".
Update: Oct/Nov 2017
As #johan98 notes in his answer - German is now a supported language.
Actions on Google is now available in German, according to
https://developers.googleblog.com/2017/10/apps-for-google-assistant-new-languages.html
I am looking for an sdk for text to speech and speech recognition. There are many free sources but unfortunately they all are in English or other popular european languages. The thing is I am looking for turkish language. Is there any source provides it?
In my knowledge there are two API's which support Turkish language.
Acapela
ispeech
Please check this api. It have support for Turkish Language too.
http://www.ispeech.org/api
Hope it helps you.
"How to localize a project i.e., already developed in some language by using Google translater". please tell me i have n't any idea on that.
Please, don't use Google translator for localizing your app! Google translator is a mechanic translator, not a human. The results are not very good. (Try to read an instruction book which was translated from Chinese to English ;) )
If your app is popular or has some fans, ask the community for some nativ speaker. Or if you have an payed app, you could go to some kind of a translator-agency.
Use Google Language API. There is a lot of documentation and help here