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TTS Change Languages Automatically (reading-1510)

Below are all the published results for the test reading-1510, which appears in Non-visual Reading (2.0.1).

This test currently has a 65.31% pass rate.

Reading system testing results
Testing Environment TTS Change Languages Automatically ( reading-1510) Notes
Atypon NVDA Chrome Windows PASS change of language is detected and it works as expected.
BoinIT Viewer [Korean] NVDA Chrome Windows FAIL EPUB Viewer's TTS follows the entire language of the document and does not apply to changes in each sentence.
BoinIT Viewer [Korean] Sens Reader Chrome Windows NA EPUB Viewer's TTS follows the entire language of the document and does not apply to changes in each sentence.
BoinIT Viewer [Korean] Chrome Windows NA EPUB Viewer's TTS follows the entire language of the document and does not apply to changes in each sentence.
Books Voiceover iOS PASS Works as desired.
Books Voiceover macOS PASS Worked great changed languages flawlessly. Even explore each word by word the synthesizer switched languages and spoke the works correctly.
Bookshare Mobile Reader Voiceover iOS PASS
Bookshare Reader NVDA Chrome Windows PASS Worked fine with multiple Microsoft Core voices installed.
Bookshare Reader Narrator Chrome Windows PASS
Bookshelf Voiceover iOS PASS Language change was detected.
Bookshelf NVDA Chrome Windows PASS The languages change perfectly. The language feature must be enabled in the NVDA speech settings.
Bookshelf TalkBack Android PASS Works as expected.
Bookshelf NVDA Windows PASS
Bookshelf Narrator Chrome Windows FAIL It reads the words in the TTS language selected; there is no real language change.
Colibrio Reader NVDA Chrome Windows PASS works as expected.
Colibrio Reader TalkBack Android PASS works as expected.
Colibrio Reader Narrator Chrome Windows 11 PASS Narrator detects change in language. I could configure German voice and the text was read properly. Narrator does not have separate interface for configuring languages and hence it is not easy to configure all voices.
EBSCO Reader NVDA Chrome Windows FAIL The screen reader does not change dialects after downloading language packs and configuring settings to change dialect/language when supported.
EBSCO Reader Jaws Chrome Windows PASS Works as expected.
EBSCO Reader NVDA Edge Windows FAIL The screen reader does not change dialects after setting it up to change language/dialect and downloading language packs.
EVO E10 Proprietary PASS
EasyReader Voiceover iOS PASS Voiceover does switch voice, change in language is detected by it.
EasyReader Jaws Windows 11 PASS Language change works fine.
EasyReader TalkBack Android PASS works as expected.
EasyReader NVDA Windows PASS After changing the language in the NVDA settings, it seems that the screen reader reads the text correctly.
EasyReader Narrator Chrome Windows 11 PASS Language is detected and announced by Narrator although I could configure only English and German voices to read.
EasyReader Narrator Windows PASS The language switched as expected. If the language is not installed, Narrator says "Entering <language name" before speaking the text in the default voice.
ElevenLabs Reader iOS FAIL
ElevenLabs Reader TalkBack Android FAIL
Kindle TalkBack Android FAIL Talkback does not detect language change here
Kindle Voiceover iOS FAIL The app does not support language change.
Kindle NVDA Windows FAIL Screen reader does not recognize language change.
Kobo Jaws Chrome Windows PASS Change in language was detected.
Kobo Voiceover iOS PASS Change of language was detected.
Kobo TalkBack Android FAIL Change of language was not detected.
Kortext TalkBack Android FAIL TTS does not automatically change the languages.
Kortext Voiceover iOS PASS Working as Expected.
Play Books Voiceover iOS PASS Working as expected.
Play Books TalkBack Android FAIL Talkback does not detect language change.
RedShelf NVDA Chrome Windows PASS Works as expected.
RedShelf Voiceover iOS PASS Language change was detected.
RedShelf TalkBack Android FAIL language change was not detected.
Speech Central AI Voice Reader 13.6.0 TalkBack Android FAIL TTS does not change language automatically.
Thorium Reader 3 NVDA Windows PASS
Thorium Reader 3 Jaws Windows PASS The TTS changes seemlessly with diffrent language text
Thorium Reader 3 Narrator Windows PASS Some of the voices do not support language shifts. I have not seen documentation on which of the voices support language changes. You will probably need to test.
Thorium Reader 3 [Spanish] NVDA Windows PASS
Victor Stream 2 proprietary PASS
Voice Dream Reader Voiceover iOS FAIL The change of language was not detected.