Hi Mary, Well, that’s interesting. In the voice rotor, it now says primary voice, not default. And having that voice selected doesn’t result in automatic language switching on the iPhone. So I don’t know what that means for your upgrade to IOS 18. I only have one voice for each language, though, so perhaps that’s the difference?
Re the Mac, I mis-spoke. I’m sitting at the kitchen table with all my Apple devices. I was thinking iPad, but typed Mac. So far as I know, there is no way to set languages to auto-detect on the Mac. Cheers, Donna > On Sep 17, 2024, at 4:26 PM, Mary Otten <motte...@gmail.com> wrote: > > , > Well, I don’t have a Mac so I have no comments about that at all. As far as > the phone or the iPad, how it worked in the past before iOS 18: > > Add all the languages you want to your language rotor, having downloaded the > appropriate voices of course. I have two US English voices, Alex which is my > default setting. That is to say, if I flip through the language rotor, where > I have several voices in different languages, Alex says “default“. If that > voice has focus as I’m looking on a webpage for instance, and I run across > Russian, voice automatically switches to my Russian voice no problem. > > If I am sent to another English voice, not my default Alex, but another one > that’s in the rotor, when I run across Russian, nothing changes. So at least > in my experience, you have to have the default as your language that you’re > reading in in order to get a voice switch. I hope that helps. It’s also worth > remembering that Russian is in a different alphabet. Whether that matters I > don’t know. > Mary > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Sep 17, 2024, at 2:01 PM, 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries >> <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> Based on her last message, Mary has gotten this to work. I never have. >> I’ve had detect languages turned on forever on my Mac, and my phone, but VO >> has never once automatically changed the voice. How have you gotten this to >> work? >> TIA, >> Donna >> >> -- >> The following information is important for all members of the Mac >> Visionaries 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 Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: >> mk...@ucla.edu 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/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/07AD97CC-6B8B-498A-AE83-45222C327B85%40me.com. > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > 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 Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: > mk...@ucla.edu 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/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/9D99F28F-4AEE-445F-8473-48D3D6044869%40gmail.com. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries 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 Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: mk...@ucla.edu 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/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/7841FAFF-A1B3-4817-BA74-D3F1F9F9CFC0%40me.com.
