So just out of curiosity, what does the Australian date format look like?
Americans use month month dash day day dash year year, as far as I'm aware. In 
our country, which is the Netherlands in Europe, we use day day slash month 
month slash year year. Because my computer is always set to language US, but 
the region is Netherlands, I'm not surprised the voices are having trouble 
speaking dates, because on my machine, I created the date conflict myself 
because I want my machine to be US, but not my dates, to communicate naturally 
with my fellow native Dutch speakers.

How do you write your dates in Australia?
Paul.
On Nov 12, 2013, at 8:59 AM, Nicholas Parsons <[email protected]> 
wrote:

> Why don't you Americans start writing your dates the right way around then 
> you wouldn't have any problem. ;)
> 
> Seriously though, changing the date format in system preferences might solve 
> some of your problems. If Mail displayed the received/sent date in the 
> Australian format, then Karen would read it correctly. However, she would 
> still mess up dates that are in the US format in other places.
> 
> On 12 Nov 2013, at 12:47 pm, alia robinson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> That’s kind of what I thought. It says mail I got two days ago is october 11 
>> since it is reading the 9 as october and the 11 which should be november as 
>> the day of the week instead. 
>> 
>> Alia
>> On Nov 11, 2013, at 10:55 AM, Alex Hall <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> I don’t think that is the problem. Most Nuance voices do their own date 
>>> formatting whenever they think they need to, which gets very annoying. Not 
>>> only are dates formatted differently for different regions, but often the 
>>> date formatting is inappropriate. For instance, I currently have Dropbox 
>>> 2.4.6, which Ava says normally. Serena, though, always told me I had 
>>> Dropbox “the second of April, 2006” or something similar. To answer the 
>>> question, though, I am pretty sure there is nothing to be done since the 
>>> logic for dates, money amounts, and so on is all part of the individual 
>>> voice.
>> 
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