Hello everyone, some of you have probably noticed, especially those who don't live in an English-speaking area, that in the Speech Central app, VoiceOver automatically switches from your language to English. Even when the option to automatically change the language is disabled in settings. For example, I use the eSpeak NG synthesis, and when I enter the Speech Central app, the voice reading the options within the app is en-US Samantha or Sem. As soon as I close the app or receive a notification unrelated to that app, eSpeak NG reads to me. This is not a problem with the Speech Central app; it's an issue arising from the new SwiftUI. I would like to contact Apple Accessibility regarding this problem, but I would appreciate it if someone could explain in more detail what the actual problem is here so that I can explain it more precisely to Apple Support. Of course, it would be helpful if you know of other apps where similar things are happening, feel free to mention them.
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I could never figure that out.
I've never been able to figure out what exactly the automatic language detection thing is supposed to do and whether it actually works. As for the issue you mentioned, it's because Apple wants VoiceOver to speak in the app's language and this is not necessarily bad. Disabling auto-detection should've been disabled language switching though. One workaround could be to make an "activity" to assign to Speech Central or whatever app in which you wish eSpeakNG continue speaking in your language.
In general it is the best to…
In general it is the best to:
1. Use the Feedback app to submit the problem to Apple in the section SwiftUI.
2. After that send the feedback number to accessibility@apple.com and explain the issue again to them.