I’m not sure about this, but I suspect that the message has to be in HTML and the language tag set correctly for the voice to switch. This is certainly true for web pages.
Cheers, Anne > On 16 Dec 2015, at 06:57, Harry Bell <ubupanora...@icloud.com> wrote: > > I'd really like to know this too as I've had similar problems when my phone > reads out text with part or all text in another language. Harry > >> On 16 Dec 2015, at 00:58, Mary Otten <motte...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I sometimes get emails that have mixed Russian and English. The language >> switching is wonderful on the iPhone. It just reads the Russian, then reads >> the English, then goes back to Russian. It is really great. So today, I got >> an email that had English and German. I don't have German in my language >> rotor, so I put it there, thinking that perhaps that might be the key to >> getting the language switching I was hoping for. no dice. Alex just went >> right ahead and read the German words. Not too good. So I switched to the >> German voice,and then it was reading English words. Also not too good. My >> guess is that the Russian switching works so well because a different >> alphabet is being used. Does that jive with others experiences? I have also >> seen my language switch to Arabic and to some Asian language that I don't >> recognize from time to time. Again, those languages use different alphabets >> then the Roman. That's my theory. Do others find similar? And in such case, >> how could I get language switching from English to another language that >> uses the Roman alphabet? >> Mary >> >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> -- >> The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. >> >> If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if >> you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or >> moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. >> >> Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - >> you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com >> >> The archives for this list can be searched at: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "VIPhone" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - > you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.