What are the BCP-47 voice codes available for iOS 7 AVSpeechSynthesisVoice?
iOS 8 added Hebrew, no new languages were added in iOS 9 to 12:
ar-SA Arabic Saudi Arabia
cs-CZ Czech Czech Republic
da-DK Danish Denmark
de-DE German Germany
el-GR Modern Greek Greece
en-AU English Australia
en-GB English United Kingdom
en-IE English Ireland
en-US English United States
en-ZA English South Africa
es-ES Spanish Spain
es-MX Spanish Mexico
fi-FI Finnish Finland
fr-CA French Canada
fr-FR French France
he-IL Hebrew Israel
hi-IN Hindi India
hu-HU Hungarian Hungary
id-ID Indonesian Indonesia
it-IT Italian Italy
ja-JP Japanese Japan
ko-KR Korean Republic of Korea
nl-BE Dutch Belgium
nl-NL Dutch Netherlands
no-NO Norwegian Norway
pl-PL Polish Poland
pt-BR Portuguese Brazil
pt-PT Portuguese Portugal
ro-RO Romanian Romania
ru-RU Russian Russian Federation
sk-SK Slovak Slovakia
sv-SE Swedish Sweden
th-TH Thai Thailand
tr-TR Turkish Turkey
zh-CN Chinese China
zh-HK Chinese Hong Kong
zh-TW Chinese Taiwan
edit: Here is how to print the above in Swift:
func printLanguages() {
AVSpeechSynthesisVoice.speechVoices().forEach { (voice) in
let language = Locale.current.localizedString(forLanguageCode: voice.language)!
let components = Locale.components(fromIdentifier: voice.language)
let country = Locale.current.localizedString(forRegionCode: components["kCFLocaleCountryCodeKey"]!)!
print("\(voice.language) \t \(language) \t\t \(country)")
}
}
You need to import AVFoundation
Here's how to get the BCP-47 codes of the available voices:
for (AVSpeechSynthesisVoice *voice in [AVSpeechSynthesisVoice speechVoices]) {
NSLog(@"%@", voice.language);
}
Alex's locale is "English - United States" (en-US), as you can see in the Dictation & Speech control panel on OS X. (Click "Customize..." in the "System Voice" drop down.)
As of iOS 7.1 there are 36 voices for the following BCP-47 codes:
ar-SA
cs-CZ
da-DK
de-DE
el-GR
en-AU
en-GB
en-IE
en-US
en-ZA
es-ES
es-MX
fi-FI
fr-CA
fr-FR
hi-IN
hu-HU
id-ID
it-IT
ja-JP
ko-KR
nl-BE
nl-NL
no-NO
pl-PL
pt-BR
pt-PT
ro-RO
ru-RU
sk-SK
sv-SE
th-TH
tr-TR
zh-CN
zh-HK
zh-TW