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maplenight Author

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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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melbasua1

Level 1

8 points

Posted on Jan 8, 2018 6:49 AM

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.

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