Thanks, Anna. I do want it when it works right. Smile. Mary
Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 17, 2015, at 7:04 AM, Richard Turner <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Thanks Anna, > That makes perfect sense. It is only when I have the default voice selected > that I hear the language switching. It has nothing to do with what languages > are in the rotor. > I might write Apple and request that they offer an option to enable or > disable language switching in the speech settings, the way it is with some > Windows screen readers. > > Richard > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Woody Anna Dresner > Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2015 6:55 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Language switching, what makes that happen? > > Hi, > > The default voice will switch to other language voices depending on how a > message or website is tagged. If you don't want it to switch, put another > English-speaking voice on the rotor and switch to it. Then it won't switch > languages regardless of the language tags in the material you're reading. > > Best, > Anna > > > >> On Dec 17, 2015, at 8:41 AM, Mary Otten <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Well, this morning I just got a message from someone from the Baum company >> in Germany. The message was written in English, but the German voice read >> it. So, it's very interesting. I should take the German voice out of my >> rotor and see if that still happens. >> Mary >> >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >>> On Dec 16, 2015, at 9:28 PM, Sieghard Weitzel <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> 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. >>> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> 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? 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