I believe you can add synthesizers to VoiceOver in the VO Utility. Then, use vo-cmd-arrows to find the "voice" option, and go to the synth you need at the time.
The good news is that automatic language switching is rumored to be part of the next major macOS ugrade, coming this fall. Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 3, 2017, at 08:44, Alex Yefetov <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear MacVisionaries, > > > > I am learning several foreign languages (incl. Spanish, Polish and Russian), > and ever since I switched to Mac OS (Sierra) from Windows/JAWS, I'm > struggling with a problem. When I try to work with any document containing > two or more languages, VoiceOver does not switch the synthesizer > automatically between them, as it does in iOS and JAWS, e.g. to read English > with English voice and Russian with Russian one without having to switch them > manually. Instead it tries to pronounce everything in language set as a > default and just skips the words if the alphabet is different (Cyrillic). > > > > Moreover, when I’m writing something - say, a letter – in foreign language I > cannot interact with any object beyond the text – menus, buttons, etc. as > they are not pronounced correctly by a system language. Does anybody have > any solution on how to teach my VoiceOver to “recognize” different languages? > > > > My next stage of learning is going to be Arabic and Mandarin, and I can > hardly imagine how I could get thru. Would highly appreciate any input! > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: > [email protected] and your owner is Cara Quinn - you > can reach Cara at [email protected] > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: [email protected] and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
