Thank you Esther for your response. This would be a good feature if it behaved consistently. For example, if I am using the Wolfram application and I ask for a translation of a word, the default language does not change and the word is Anglicized. I noticed this when I try to get a Danish translation for a simple phrase. Is there any way that this feature could behave more consistently? Thanks for your help.
Bob Fenton Sent from my iPhone On 2013-01-28, at 6:06 PM, Esther <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Robert, > > It's not a bug, but a feature! The behavior you describe of phrases > in web pages or email messages being read in the original language > instead of U.S. English occurs whenever your language rotor is set to > "Default language" instead of "U.S. English" or some other specific > language. This is a deliberate design decision, as far as I can tell, > that has been in effect in iOS since the very first versions that > supported a language rotor (iOS 4.0 for the iPhone; either iOS 4.1 or > 4.2 for the iPad). If an iOS device user speaks or writes in more than > one language, the difference between setting the language rotor to > "Default language", which might happen to be "U.S. English", and > explicitly setting it to "U.S. English" is the ability to hear text > spoken in other languages in that setting. > > For example, I have multiple language voices and keyboards enabled on > my devices. If I attach a Bluetooth keyboard and change the rotor to a > language that does not use Latin characters, like Russian, Greek, > Chinese, Japanese, or Korean, I will not hear VoiceOver even announce > those keyboards and languages unless my language rotor is set to > "Default language" instead of "U.S. English". > > The solution is easy: explicitly add "U.S. English" as a separate > selection to your VoiceOver language rotor. The advantage of the > "Default Language" setting is that anyone who is reading multilingual > documents will not have to spend all their time changing the language > rotor setting. There's also a potential performance advantage in not > having to maintain multiple language resources continuously open for > the default voice. And this behavior is true for any language > selection. I tried changing the default language of my iPhone to > French, and selecting "Default Language" instead of "Français" > produced the same behavior you described of pronouncing text I. The > original language, while choosing "Français" made it impossible to > hear VoiceOver say anything when reading a language with non-Latin > characters, or even to change to such an input language for an > attached keyboard. > > HTH. Cheers, > > Esther > > > > On Jan 28, 1:29 pm, Robert Fenton <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hello everybody: >> >> The bug I experienced with reading webpages and email messages generated >> outside of the United States in languages other than English still exists >> when the US English voice is selected as the default. When this kind of >> content is accessed, VoiceOver will attempt to read it in the language of >> the country where the email or website is generated from this even happens >> if the message is written in English. However, if you switch the voice to >> British English or Australian English, the message reads fine. I do still do >> not have an explanation for this problem. I Will copy Apple accessibility on >> this message to see if we can get an answer. I will keep you posted. >> >> Bob Fenton >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On 2013-01-28, at 2:07 PM, Richard Turner <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>> Check this out >> >>> http://www.applevis.com/blog/advocacy/ios-61-accessibility-bug-list-f... >> >>> Richard >>> (Sent from Richard's iPod Touch 5th gen) >>> -- > > -- > 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 Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- 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 Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
