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Text to speech detects wrong language on iPhone

I use text-to-speech (speak screen) on my iPhone (iOS 10, system language set to English) to read out articles I need to read. But it has problem of detecting correctly the languages of the articles. Very often it reads Spanish text in English prononciation, or Chinese text in Japanese. I can't find a way to manually select the language when launching speak screen. What's worse, some of the corrected read Spanish text in iOS 9 get wrong in iOS 10.


I did try to set the system language to Spanish, then some of the Spanish text which were wrongly detected can be read correctly. So it shows this error of language detection has nothing to do with the text itself, but iOS' detection method.


Anyone can help? Thank you!

OS X Mountain Lion

Posted on Oct 1, 2016 8:29 PM

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Posted on Jan 8, 2018 1:14 PM

Two or three months ago I called Apple support and opened a case for this problem. Not having heard anything back after a month I called my support specialist directly and left a message to follow up. No response.


As I mentioned in a previous post this is a change in behavior. Prior versions of iOS allowed me to choose between Japanese and Chinese after selecting “speak”. iOS 11 does not.

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Text to speech detects wrong language on iPhone

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