IOS 6 multilingual text-to-speech

IOS 6 seems to have brought a text-to-speech able to recognize different languages (in my case, french and english). When in doubt it even asks to confirm the language before reading the text. Not sure is new with IOS 6 but I did not notice this function before.
However, Siri does not have the same intelligence. It reads (SMS for instance) assuming the text is in the language defined for Siri setup.
Anybody tried this?

Since iOS 6 is not available outside of registered developer circles until the 19th Sept, your question should be posted in Apple's Developer forums.

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...and he's at it again!
TL;DR chromium-ext-chromiumos-tts-git - all TTS voices from Chromium OS for use with Chromium desktop browser. Install as unpacked extension (no more auto-install, sorry, damn you Google!)
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Enjoy :-)
Last edited by ackalker (2015-01-04 17:46:38)

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