I think what Ann says is true because I get some german emails where Voiceover 
automatically reads them in German and with others this is not the case.


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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of 
Anne Robertson
Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2015 4:30 AM
To: [email protected] [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Language switching, what makes that happen?

I’m not sure about this, but I suspect that the message has to be in HTML and 
the language tag set correctly for the voice to switch. This is certainly true 
for web pages.

Cheers,

Anne


> On 16 Dec 2015, at 06:57, Harry Bell <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I'd really like to know this too as I've had similar problems when my phone 
> reads out text with part or all text in another language. Harry
> 
>> On 16 Dec 2015, at 00:58, Mary Otten <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> I sometimes get emails that have mixed Russian and English. The language 
>> switching is wonderful on the iPhone. It just reads the Russian, then reads 
>> the English, then goes back to Russian. It is really great. So today, I got 
>> an email that had English and German. I don't have German in my language 
>> rotor, so I put it there, thinking that perhaps that might be the key to 
>> getting the language switching I was hoping for. no dice. Alex just went 
>> right ahead and read the German words. Not too good. So I switched to the 
>> German voice,and then it was reading English words. Also not too good. My 
>> guess is that the Russian switching works so well because a different 
>> alphabet is being used. Does that jive with others  experiences? I have also 
>> seen my language switch to Arabic and to some Asian language that I don't 
>> recognize from time to time. Again, those languages use different alphabets 
>> then the Roman. That's my theory. Do others find similar? And in such case, 
>> how could I get language switching from English to another language that 
>> uses the Roman alphabet?
>> Mary
>> 
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