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My apologies if this is common knowledge among screen reader users, but I’ve just learned something new. Often, when scrolling social media, my Voiceover voice would change to a non-English speaking voice and read a post in another accent. It was so pronounced that I could not understand the post even though swiping through one word at a time did allow me to read the words which were clearly in English. But I’ve had French, German, Russian, Arabic & Oriental accents cropping up for no obvious reason.
I thought this might be something to do with Language Detection but it’s not. The way to fix it is quite bizarre.
I use Fiona as my Primary voice. But someone suggested I revert to some other voice as the primary one, then add Fiona as a Rotor Voice. So I put good old Daniel back as my primary voice, then added Fiona to the Rotor. After selecting Fiona from the rotor, I went back and checked one of the posts I had been unable to read and this time it worked perfectly.
Quite why a Rotor voice reads a post in English but the Primary voice doesn’t is beyond me, but if anyone else is having this problem, this is how to fix it.
#Accessibility #Voiceover
@BlindGordon Editionally you could make Eloquence your primary voice as well.
@mckensie I could. But I detest Eloquence. It’s far too robotic for my liking.
Yes, I know, other voices aren’t great, but the only point of setting the primary voice is to allow me to use an alternative from the rotor, so it was easy enough to use Daniel as he’s the default. It saved downloading any other voices.
@BlindGordon I detest eloquence but it gets me somewhere when I need to.