Hi Dónal, I have my defaults set to use the Australian voice (selected Region Format "Australia" under Settings > General > International), and when I visit the (U.S.) iTunes Store the voice reverts back to the U.S. English selection for entries, although words for the controls like "button" are still spoken in the Australian voice. Perhaps the language setting of the US voice for Ireland was chosen to make all of Apple's employees from their headquarters in California feel comfortable when they visited Apple's center for European distribution in Ireland? Or alternatively, perhaps the intent was to get Apple's employees in Ireland trained to an American accent!
There are odder things than those voice shifts going on: Brett alluded to the early woes of the iPhone's VoiceOver users who accessed the Canadian iTunes store, only to be greeted in Spanish (and, to add insult to injury, Spanish that was not spoken with Spanish intonations.) Posts to the VIPhone list that included replies from other individuals switched to UK English voices and German voices depending on some of the mail header codes -- even when the text was written out in English. All quite interesting. Best, Esther Donal Fitzpatrick wrote: >Scott, > >It is an interesting one. What's bizarre is that if I change the language >to UK in the international settings, I get a UK voice. The choice of >Ireland as country means a US voice. Now what's even more unusual, is that >parts of the UI are spoken with a UK voice in the app store, and others (for >example the buttons across the bottom of the screen) are using the default >voice. The only thing I can think of is that the appstore is set to UK or >something? Mind you it could be worse, the thing could be trying to speak >to me in Gaelic! > >Thanks > >Dónal > >-----Original Message----- >From: Scott Howell [mailto:scottn3...@gmail.com] >Sent: 07 December 2009 23:14 >To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >Subject: Re: iPhone synthesiser changing in appstore. > >Actually it is in there and I'm really surprised it changes that way. Look >in Settings, General, International, and Region Format. You'll find some >really interesting stuff here. Now I'm curious if the App store figures you >aren't in the U.S. and switches to the region where your located? >Hmmm, very interesting indeed. >On Dec 7, 2009, at 5:50 PM, Donal Fitzpatrick wrote: > >> Evening folks, >> >> I'm noticing some odd behaviour on the iPhone. I am simply using the >> default US English synthesiser - that is the one which was on the >> device when I got it. However, when I switch into the appstore, I >> notice that it's changing to a UK voice. Interestingly, I don't see >> this synthesiser or indeed language option in the various settings >> panels. Anyone got some ideas as to what's going on? >> >> Dónal >> >> -- > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
