Hi Melinda,
Hebrew is not one of the languages supported by VoiceOver on the iPhone. Here's
a link to the Apple Knowledge Base document that lists supported iPhone
languages for Voice Control and VoiceOver on the iPhone and iPod Touch:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3562
For a few languages that are not supported by VoiceOver, you can find apps that
have text-to-speech support that will speak text that is usually typed or
pasted into the app with text-to-speech voices that work with the non-supported
languages. These are usually translation apps, and the voices are typically
available for in-app purchase for $0.99 or $1.99 each. A few of these apps
cost more for the app, but include some of these voices. For example, Trippo
VoiceMagix, which is a speech recognition translation app, currently only
available in the U.S. and Canadian app stores, will both speak and translate to
Hindi -- a language that is not supported for text entry or voice on the iPhone
under iOS 4.
As far as I know, there are no text-to-speech voice options for Hebrew in apps
for the iPhone, iPod Touch or the iPad. There are apps that will add a Hebrew
input keyboard, and work with text, but I don't know of any apps which will
speak Hebrew, apart from some language learning apps with recorded audio
snippets for pronunciation of words for new learners, or possibly some travel
guidebooks with audio clips of stock phrases. There are some apps that support
Arabic voices, since this is one of the voices you can get from the Acapela
group, and there is the Jibbigo Iraqi English Speech Translator app ($24.99 --
pretty specialized in dialect), but nothing that I'm aware of for Hebrew. Also,
the translation apps that can be finagled to speak text usually have length
limits on the text that they'll speak, as well as requiring you to copy and
paste content into the app.
App availability depends on the country of the app store you use, which you
don't mention, but I'm assuming it is the U.S., which gives the widest range of
options. Even in that case, I'm not aware of anything that will speak Hebrew
on the iPhone or iPod Touch, which I assume is what you want.
HTH. Cheers,
Esther
On Aug 23, 2010, at 09:13 AM, Melinda Pethel wrote:
Does anyone know how to make VO speak in hebrew? I can change the input language but VO cannot speak it.
Toda,
Melinda
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