Hi Robert, what's happening here is that VoiceOver is trying to detect the language of the text it's displaying, and switch to the appropriate voice automatically. As Esther said, this is the behaviour when "default language" is selected in the language rotor.
Sometimes, though, it fails to give you the results you expect. This would happen if, say, a web page author used incorrect markup for some content. For example, I read a Canadian mobile news Blog that incorrectly marks articles as French when really they are in English. The result is that VoiceOver switches to a French voice, which is not what I want. The solution is to force VO to a specific language, which you can do by choosing it in the language rotor. Think of "default language" as "try to automatically detect languages." When that fails, force it to a specific language using the rotor, and know that what you're doing essentially, is turning off VoiceOver's automatic language tetection. On 1/28/13, Robert Fenton <robert.fen...@samobile.net> wrote: > 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 <mori...@mac.com> 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 <robert.fen...@samobile.net> 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 <richard.turne...@gmail.com> >>> 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/viphone@googlegroups.com/. >> To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> 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 viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> 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/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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 viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. 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