tropowebapi tutorial - speaking multiple languages

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Speaking Multiple Languages

When working with multinational callers, American English might not be the language or accent you want to use for your application's prompts. Tropo provides many different voice options to choose from, and it's all controlled using the voice parameter:

Ruby
Node.js
PHP
Python
JSON

require 'tropo-webapi-ruby'
require 'sinatra'

post '/index.json' do
    
  t = Tropo::Generator.new
  
  t.say "Hello, how are you?", :voice => "kate"
  
  t.response

end

var http = require('http');
var tropo_webapi = require('tropo-webapi');

var server = http.createServer(function (request, response) {
	
	var tropo = new TropoWebAPI();

	// (value, as, name, required, voice)
	tropo.say("Hello, how are you?.", null, null, null, "kate");
	
	response.end(TropoJSON(tropo));

}).listen(8000);

<?php

require 'tropo.class.php';

$tropo = new Tropo();
$tropo->say("Hello, how are you?", array("voice" => "kate"));
$tropo->RenderJson();

?>

from itty import *
from tropo import Tropo

@post('/index.json')
def index(request):

    t = Tropo()
    t.say("Hello, how are you?", voice = "kate")
    return t.RenderJson()

run_itty(server='wsgiref', host='0.0.0.0', port=8888)

{
   "tropo":[
      {
         "say":[
            {
               "value":"Hello, how are you?",
               "voice":"kate"
            }
         ]
      }
   ]
}

The previous example shows how to speak using Kate, our British English voice. We also have Simon, Jorge, Katrin, Paola and quite a few others ready for you. Here's a complete list:

Language	Female Voice(s)	Male Voice(s)
U.S. English	Allison (Default), Susan, Vanessa, Veronica	Dave, Steven, Victor
British English	Elizabeth, Kate	Simon
Australian English	Grace	Alan
Catalan	Montserrat	Jordi
Danish	Frida	Magnus
Dutch	Saskia	Willem
Finnish	Milla	Mikko
French	Florence, Juliette	Bernard
French (Canadian)	Charlotte	Olivier
Galacian	Carmela	(none)
German	Katrin	Stefan
Greek	Afroditi	Nikos
Italian	Giulia, Paola, Silvana, Valentina	Luca, Marcello, Matteo, Roberto
Mandarian Chinese	Linlin, Lisheng	(none)
Norwegian	Vilde	Henrik
Polish	Zosia	Krzysztof
Russian	Olga	Dmitri
Spanish (Castilian)	Carmen, Leonor	Jorge, Juan
Spanish (Argentine)	(none)	Diego
Spanish (Chilean)	Francisca	(none)
Spanish (Mexican)	Soledad, Ximena, Esperanza	Carlos
Portugese	Amalia	Eusebio
Portugese (Brazilian)	Fernanda, Gabriela	Felipe
Swedish	Annika	Sven
Valencian	Empar	(none)

If you need to recognize voice input as well, you probably need to define which language Tropo is listening for using the recognizer parameter.

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