Yes, this bug is specific to MacOS.  The Greek voice and automatic language 
switching for Greek iOS works well.

Andrew

> On 8 Jul 2019, at 23:36, John JD Denning <jdenning1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Is this bug specific to the macOS? Does it read correctly in iOS?  
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On Jul 8, 2019, at 15:58, 'Andrew Lamanche' via MacVisionaries 
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>> Dear All,
>> 
>> This is particularly relevant to hose of us who speak Greek or use Greek 
>> language to rea with VoiceOver.  Sadly, the Greek voice remains to be broken 
>> in Catalina beta although I’ve been reporting this problem since High Sierra 
>> when the Greek voice was broken - it’s now 4 years since.  Please please, if 
>> you can, do report this bug as well as I am at my wits’ end.  How come Apple 
>> has ignored this problem in High Sierra, Mojave, and now in Catalina while 
>> I’ve been reporting it repeatedly for so many years?  It’s beyond a joke.  
>> So if any of you speak Greek or use Greek in any form, please report this 
>> bug as well. 
>> 
>> To explain: when using Greek voice to read Greek text, instead of reading 
>> text as normal, the Greek voice spells it out.  This is ridiculous and it 
>> must be easy to fix.  If you want to test it, go to a webpage, www.tanea.gr 
>> <http://www.tanea.gr/> - a Greek news website, and see for yourselves: Greek 
>> voice (melina) will start spelling words.  It will sound like: alpha, kapa, 
>> epsilon, taf, omega,; and yet at the same time when coming across an English 
>> word, the Greek voice will read it out correctly albeit with a Greek accent. 
>>  This is just patheitc.
>> 
>> Andrew
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