Sounds like something to report to Apple. I suggest sending an email to 
[email protected] reporting the problem. 

David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA
Email: [email protected]
Mobile: +64 21 2288 288
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On 03/02/2013, at 23:13, Andrew Lamanche <[email protected]> wrote:

> Dear Listers,
> 
> In iOS 6.0, one could not use the Greek voice as it would only spell the 
> Greek text rather than read it as normal. In iOS 6.1, this behaviour appeared 
> to be the same, much to my dispair. However, I've played with it a little 
> more and I discover that if I make the Greek voice my default voice in 
> "settings" / "international", then I can read Greek text as one should. The 
> problem is however, that having made Greek the default voice, all the icons 
> change to the Greek localisation as well. The Greek voice can read English 
> but with a degree of distortion which makes it very tiresome. Therefore, in 
> english applications, Greek voice will read the English icons and text but in 
> a ditroted somewhat distorted way. It is a solution for me but not very 
> satisfactory.
> 
> I don't understand why it is that when I choose Greek using the rotor with 
> English being the default, then the Greek doesn't work properly, but when I 
> make it the default voice, then it does.
> 
> Has anyone else noticed this with other languages? It seems to me that it is 
> a bug since no other voice behaves in this fashion. Even when you go to the 
> languages options and flick through the list of all available languages, all 
> languages are spoken by their full name, i.e., Francé, but when you land on 
> Greek it says, epsilon, lambda lambda iota, nika, rather then ellinika which 
> is a full name. So it spells part of the name and part pronounces it.
> 
> Feel free to write of list, if you wish with your experiences, comments. It's 
> frustrating to be able to choose French let's say when I need it, or Russian, 
> and read a piece of text easily, and not to be able to switch through 
> language rotor option into Greek to let's say browse a website in Greek or 
> read an ej-mail from a Greek friend.
> 
> Best wishes
> 
> Andrew
> 
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