Speak aloud selected text of a webpage in its language

In OS X Safari, I can highlight text in part of a webpage and then right-click on it, select Speech > Start Speaking. English text selected will be spoken aloud correctly, but other languages will be ignored.
Is OS X Safari capable of detecting the language(s) of the selected text and speak aloud in its language(s) e.g. French, Italian and Chinese (Cantonese and Mandarin) and how?

I right or control clicked: essayer de voix ici
In Google translate then clicked Speech > Start Speaking and it worked.
Try it here > essayer de voix ici
If it works here, it should work on websites in other languages.

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