Russian TTS

Russian TTS has a very annoying bug: the sequence of Cyrillic characters "на " (i.e. "н", "а" and space) pronounced something like “date nom” plus something else that cannot be expressed in any existing alphabet except IPA :-). Apple support suggested me to upgrade my devices (iPhone and iPad) to the latest 15.0.2 which I did. It didn't help.

The above sequence met in Russian as frequently as English "on " (i.e. "o", "n" and space) - so you can imagine how annoying this bug is.

Support team created two cases about this: but I cannot trace it.

I saw similar question by user genixg.

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iPad, iPadOS 15

Posted on Oct 22, 2021 5:14 PM

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dmalinovsky

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Posted on Nov 3, 2021 6:28 AM

I found a workaround. If you go to the “Settings > Accessibility > Spoken Content > Pronunciations” and add a custom replacement from Cyrillic letters “на” to Latin “na” in all languages, this bug no longer happens.

See the screenshot.

The important bit is to choose All Languages. If you choose Russian only, it doesn’t work.

Hope it helps you, because I still have iOS 14 version, not 15.

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