Text to speech detects wrong language on iPhone

Have you found a solution yet? I needed to use speak selection to easily copy text from online articles by hand. I needed to copy codes like SFSJ47KH and stuff. It started out fine, but then it started reciting codes in other languages.

To my iPhone:

I don't know how to say numbers or letters in Hungarian, sorry, and those letters are English because I specify them as such in my language preferences, so please don't try to recite them in Japanese or Russian, etc...

If I could just delete the unused language voices, that would be great.

Hello. I’m having the same problem and wanted to know if anyone has found a solution. I’ve tried switching the voices and all other suggestions given on this thread but no luck. The Spanish is read in English with an accent, very strange. I’ve been using the Voiceover for years because I’m dyslexic and need to listen to all my reading materials. This bug of theirs is extremely inconvenient. Thank you in advance for any solutions.

My Apple 8 is a defective phone. Absolutely not a US phone. With Voice typing it makes up words from other countries,primarily Asian. It doesn’t know to put a period in at the end of a sentence and writes the word out. I have had iPhone and apple products since they came in the market and I won’t buy Apple in the future. The language barrier has seriously put a damper on my professional business, as I must multi-task non stop 20 hours a day 7 days all week. Just don’t have time for this nonsense! So sorry to have lost Steve Jobs! When you llose a creator, the life is lost. Enough said!

Update: Everything doesn't work fine, even non-italicized words are affected. It does seem to get perpetually worse the longer the speaking goes on...

I’m having the same **** problem and it’s frustrating the crap out of me haha. Did you ever find a fix?

Mine does the same thing. It will read headers and words in italics in a different language voice. It’s a huge pain!

Has anyone found a solution to this problem yet???????????????????????? I need help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Having the same problem. They need to fix this , it’s stressing me out

I am having this issue but I only want it to speak back in English only. No other language. Have you had this issue resolved yet? If so, please help!

Same issue here, I am using the "Pages" app and it's reading my Spanish text in Portuguese...

If only I could Uninstall ALL Text-to-Speech voices except for Spanish and English it would probably fix this issue... Honestly, I don't speak any other languages, and with only two choices that are extremely different it won't have much of a choice. This needs to get fixed, it's an unacceptable bug!

I think there may not be any "detection," you have to choose the voice/language you want manually.

Adjust voices for VoiceOver, Speak Screen, and Speak Selection on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support

I have the exact same problem, the iOS is set in english but I want to text-to-speach Italian articles.In iOS 8 and 9 this was working 99% of the time, now with iOS 10 I'd say the correct language detection is around 30%.

The only workaround I know is to select a smaller portion of text, so that it is easier for the AI to detected the correct lang.

Hi,

I have that same problem on my iPhone 6s Plus and iPad. For me the switch between German and English does not work. And sometimes Japanese is not read out when an English paragraph came before it. My phone language is German. I read Japanese and English as well.

I tried many different voices and reinstalling my OS. Nothing worked. Only selecting a smaller text chunk works most of the time, but often German reads Engish text still then.

All this did worked in iOS9 and I was supprised it changed. I guess it is some kind of bug. I will try it with my friends phones.

I am very disappointed by the bad quality management in place here as many more accessible features have huge bugs as well.

I have this problem as well, only the issue is with Chinese text being read in Greek or Korean (only the punctuation is read, everything else is skipped with speak screen, leading to whole articles being skipped over). It was pretty ridiculous considering these languages have next to nothing in common and the articles this happened in was just pure Chinese text. I read in English, Chinese, Japanese and French and only have these four languages added to my phone's language and input so i guess the preferred language order selection under keyboard doesn't seem to affect speak screen at all. It's really fustrating as even a hard reset does nothing in fixing the issue.