Thanks, Anna. I do want it when it works right. Smile.
Mary

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> 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? 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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