Yep! I'm a Norwegian and my native language is Norwegian but I have no problem understanding both Swedish and Danish (Norway, Sweden and Denmark = Scandinavia). I also speak English. In fact I use English frequently to communicate (like on this list) and at work (I work for a large international IT company which actually has it's HQ in Canada). So, on my iPhone I use both Norwegian and English all the time (I prefer Karen, the Australian voice when using English). I learned German as well in school but have not used it since then. So I guess my German is quite bad these days :)
Anyway, I find the so called HQ voice (the Norwegian one at least) to be horrible. I wish Apple could drop that voice and include a different HQ voice for Norwegian. Actually it's so bad I can't stand it at all so I'm using the compact voice. I also have a dream that Apple one day allows for other TTS engines on the iPhone in addition to the Vocalizer voices from Neuance. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: 30. desember 2012 06:48 To: [email protected] Subject: RE: automatic language switching in ios is brilliant Hi Brett, If you look at the world at large I'm afraid Americans are probably in a minority regarding the speaking of two or more languages. In Germany, where I am from, pretty much everybody who is 50 or so years old and younger speaks English. The same goes for all Scandinavian countries, the Netherlands and Switzerland except that in countries like Denmark, Sweden or Norway people often speak several Scandinavian languages on top of English and sometimes German. English one the one hand is the dominant language in the world at least for international business, politics and technology so that often means native English speakers like the British, Americans, Australians and so on have little need to speak another language wheras in the rest of the world English is pervasive. Regards, Sieghard -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brett Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2012 4:24 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: automatic language switching in ios is brilliant Hi,. Personally, I hate it and always disable it on the PC. I think the option should be a toggle since more people only speak one language than two or more. Sent from Brett's iPhone On 30/12/2012, at 11:17 AM, Mary Otten <[email protected]> wrote: > I have recently been experimenting with a couple of apps that have Arabic and English text or Russian and English text, and the language switching on the iPhone between the English and other language voices is perfect! My only thing is that I wish Apple would let us have hq voices for more than our home language. I've written that request to accessibility, and I hope they will make it happen, like they do on the Mac. > > Mary > > Mary Otten > [email protected] > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
