Hello Andrew, You asked: > Esther, thank you for your comments and the enclosed links. May I ask how you > add the selected language in the rotor as a default language? >
The default language is always the language that corresponds to your geographic region whenyounset up your iPhone or other IOS device. It will show up in Settings > General > International > Language and the associated voice is determined by the selection in Settings > General > International > Region Format. If someone activates VoiceOver and does not add any languages to the language rotor under Setting > General > Accessibility > VoiceOver > Language Rotor, then the Language Rotor option will not appear. If I choose to add different English voices to my language rotor, I can select voices from other regions, like "British English", "Australian English", "South African English", and "Irish English". I can also select "U.S. English", although that is already present in the language rotor as my default voice. The difference between selecting my default voice, which happens to be "U.S. English", and "U.S. English", if it is separately selected in my language rotor, is that on pages containing, say, an email from a German site that happens to be written in English, selecting the default voice will cause that text to be read with a German voice, where selecting the separate "U.S. English" voice entry in the rotor (not associated with the default voice) will force VoiceOver to use the U.S. English voice for that text. The only way I know of changing the default voice is by changing the language and region format under Settings > General > International. If I change my language this way, my home screen and menus also change to that language. In one of the linked posts I gave you earlier, I checked on the behavior of the default language rotor setting by changing my default language to French. Here's another example of the difference between using the default voice and the same voice as a separate selection I the language rotor. One of the languages and keyboards I have set up in my rotor is Russian. If I switch my input keyboard to Russian and then change my language rotor to any other language that does not use Cyrillic characters, and that is not my default language, I won't be able to hear any of the letters on virtual keyboard announced , and if I type anything the words will also not be announced. However, if the language rotor is set to my default language, even though it is U.S. English, I will hear every character on the keyboard spoken as I type, and I'll hear the word announced in the text field. I won't hear the details that a capital lettter was typed, that I would hear if I actually switched the language rotor to Russian, but I'll hear the letters and words spoken in Russian intonation. While if I set my rotor to U.S. English as a separate selection in the rotor (not as the default voice), I won't hear anything from VoiceOver when I press the keys with non-Latin characters. I suspect you're familair with all this, and it doesn't solve your problem. If I set my language rotor to Russian, and change my keyboard to U.S. English input, which is my default language, I can still hear the Latin letters for "a, b, c" announced as they are typed, but they're spoken with Russian intonation. And the words that I type in English are also pronounced, but with a Russian intonation. This is similar to what you are experiencing when you try to read both Greek and English with your rotor set to the Greek voice. The English words sound oddly pronounced. HTH. Sorry not to have a better answer for you. Basically when you set your default language to English, Greek is not being treated the same way as all other languages. You don't just hear the word spoken, as I do in the case of Cyrillic characters and Russian. You hear each one of the letters spelled out before each Greek word is spoken, which must be maddening. As I commented earlier, I think there's a related bug for VoiceOver Greek users on the Mac. Cheers, Esther -- 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.
