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With Spoken Content feature, is it possible to use the same language of a different region?

Hello,


I am using Spoken Content in French on my iphone and I am trying to set the voice to French Belgium or French Canada.

My phone is set to French France and when choosing other than the default voice for French France it works.

When I try to choose a voice in French Canada\Belgium the voice spoken is the default one (which is in French France).


Is this how this feature is supposed to work or is this a bug?

Thanks

iPhone 13 mini, iOS 17

Posted on Sep 4, 2024 3:12 AM

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Sep 6, 2024 6:51 PM in response to tanin82

Hi tanin82,

Re: With Spoken Content feature, is it possible to use the same language of a different region?


Am no expert in this area, so may not know what you need, yet your request certainly deserves some response.

At least we get your discussion underway, and others with more expertise may contribute their experience.


Re: My phone is set to French France


Wondering which setting for French France you mean:

✽ Your setting may be the language set for "over-all" use : Settings  > General > Language & Region.

More info: Change the language and region on iPhone - Apple Support

or

✽ Just the language you have chosen for Spoken Content : Settings  > Accessibility > Spoken Content > Voices: (where you choose a voice and dialect).


It may make a difference whether you use Spoken Content, or VoiceOver, and may depend upon what you want spoken. Eg: used in app(s) like Safari etc., or third-party (non-Apple) app(s), or for reading documents generally.

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More info:

VoiceOver is Apple's gesture-based screen reader: VoiceOver uses the same language you choose for your iPhone. To choose a different primary language, go to Settings  > General > Language & Region, then tap Add Language. Languages supported by VoiceOver - Apple Support includes the three French voices you mentioned.


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

Eg: says:

"Your iOS or iPadOS device uses a compact voice for VoiceOver, Speak Screen, and Speak Selection.

But you have a few other options for the voices you can use for speech.


Adjust VoiceOver voices : Enhanced-quality voices can be 100 MB or larger.

Connect your device to Wi-Fi to download and install one of these voices.

With VoiceOver, you can turn on more than one voice, switch between Default and Enhanced Quality (without needing to download the voice again), and change the speaking rate for each voice."


There is more info. (eg: on downloading voices) in the above article.


All the best :-)

Sep 11, 2024 7:49 PM in response to tanin82

Thank you kindly for replying, tanin82, and for the info. you have added.

Seems : "Spoken Content"

(ie: "Settings"  > "Accessibility" > "Spoken Content" > "Voices"):

is where you choose a voice and dialect.


If this is not working for you:

You may want to contact Apple's Accessibility Support Team:

How to contact Apple for accessibility support - Apple Support

and / or :

You may want to send feedback to Apple:

To provide feedback about an accessibility feature on an Apple product,

you can email the Accessibility team: accessibility@apple.com.

Sep 9, 2024 12:38 AM in response to brbo

Thanks for your reply brbo.


The settings I am referring to are in "Settings  > General > Language & Region."

Both prefered language French (France) and the region France.


I am using Spoken content and appearntly it should be possible to select in the Spoken content settings the same language of another region (I asked in another forum and someone wrote that for him, in English, it works).

With Spoken Content feature, is it possible to use the same language of a different region?

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