A bug i cannot identify for the moment prevents childsplay to detect automatically the current locale. To use childsplay with your own language, use childsplay --language=fr Childsplay comes with the following locales : - ar - ca - de - el - en - es - fr - it - nb - nl - pl - ro - sl - vi Alphabet sounds are avilable in separate packages for the folowing locales (english is bundled in main package) : - ca - de - es - fr - it - nl - ru Install alphabet sounds for your language with: yum install childsplay-alphabet_sounds_fr