Redux: VoiceOver in languages other than English

By Ricky Buchanan • November 13, 2007

I posted a few days ago about VoiceOver in languages other than English for Leopard. When I realised I couldn’t find a document anywhere explaining what languages VoiceOver was localised in, I emailed Apple with the question. Here’s the response I received last night:

VoiceOver is localized in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Japanese, and Chinese. Mac OS X ships only with English voices, but other language voices can be purchased separately.

Thanks to Apple for the quick response time on the query.

- ATMac

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Ricky Buchanan

Ricky Buchanan is 34 years old and the founder and main writer for ATMac. She's bedridden with severe CFS/ME or perhaps a primary mitochondrial disorder - the doctors are not sure. When she's not working on ATMac or her other websites she composes music, listens to audio books, does other disability advocacy, watches TV with her flatmate, and enjoys her cat.

5 Comments For “Redux: VoiceOver in languages other than English”

Steven Nov 14th, 2007 at 6:02 am

Where do you get the other languages?
Ricky Buchanan Nov 17th, 2007 at 9:34 am

You have to purchase the other languages from third-party companies. Cepstral sells some languages, AssistiveWare sells some (under the Infovox iVox label), no doubt other companies sell others. Let me know if you can’t find the right web addresses for these.
Werner Nov 18th, 2007 at 11:46 pm

Hello

Besides voice in languages other than English, I also use braille.
But I did not find out how to configure VoiceOver so that it uses a
German Braille table. In VoiceOver utility, there is only the
braille table for US English available. Does that mean, that I have
to get a german braille table from somewhere else?
Any help is very much appreciated.

Regards
Werner
Ricky Buchanan Nov 19th, 2007 at 11:21 pm

Werner, I honestly don’t have a clue about the braille tables. I suggest you email accessibility@apple.com and ask them - if you find out, let me know and I’ll post it here so we can share the knowledge!

Ricky
Ricky Buchanan Jan 9th, 2008 at 1:00 am

The best current information on text-to-speech voices in languages other than English can be found at the Multilingual Mac blog, I think.

Ricky

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