Re: Language Subtag Registration

I am also pretty interested in the auditory aspect of sub-tags. Right now
TTS engines will use the language and region, but don't seem to go any
deeper into sub-tags.

-Nick

On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 1:18 PM Hugh Paterson <[email protected]> wrote:

> Is anyone aware of how speech-to-text tools use these sub-tags (if at
> all). I'd like to know more about that, but I'm not sure where to look.
> Feel free to ping me off list as this is a bit tangential.
>
> thanks,
> - Hugh
>
> On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 11:01 AM, Doug Ewell <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> CE Whitehead wrote:
>>
>> eventually I suppose we will get subtags for all dialects
>>>
>>
>> I don't see any basis for supposing that. Even if it were possible to
>> define and identify "all dialects," and practical to characterize and
>> exemplify them, a case would still have to be made for the utility of each
>> such subtag for tagging content.
>>
>> there is yet no subtag for English as spoken in Brooklyn or New York
>>> but some dialects such as New Foundland do have subtags.
>>>
>>
>> Newfoundland English differs in more than just accent and a limited set
>> of regional terms. As the references cited by the registration form showed,
>> there are grammatical differences as well.
>>
>> I do think that the accents though vary with city location
>>>
>>
>> It's almost never just about accents, and shouldn't be really. Once you
>> get past a handful of very well-known regional accents, the line between
>> "Michigan English" and "the way my cousin in Sault Ste. Marie talks"
>> becomes very vague.
>>
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