Iphone question

[rickp]

Does anyone know if there's a way to make my iphone speak other languages?

 

I'm trying to type in French, but it keeps auto-correcting to unrelated words in English.

 

The person I'm typing with is texting quickly complete with proper accents, so I'm thinking there must be a French spell checker somewhere?

 

Can anyone help?

[+ deej]

You can set the phone's language to French in Settings->General->International->Language, although that may not be necessary because you could just disable autocorrect. They hide it pretty well. Settings->General->Keyboard->Auto-Correction. (Must've been good weed the day they decided to hide that setting in Keyboard.)

 

To *type* in French, with the accents, press and hold the unaccented letter. You'll get a popup of the various available accents and other diacriticals for that letter.

[rickp]

Ah, ok thanks. Only thing is I want to use it in both English and French autocorrecting in both. Is that not possible?

[+ deej]

I'd be surprised if that were possible, but at least it isn't too difficult to toggle between the two.

[rickp]

Thanks

[Steven_Draker]

I think I can respond to this question. I switch often between French and English when typing on my iPhone.

 

There's auto-correct and spell check in French and you can switch from one language to another by clicking the "WORLD" button in the lower left corner (left of the space button on my screen). Lower left corner on the first picture below.

 

http://images.apple.com/iphone/ios/images/ios_worksallover.jpg

 

You can type one word in English and the next in French, but you need to change the language each time (as Deej pointed out).

[+ deej]

¡Ajá!

 

You only get that "World" button on the keyboard when a non-English language is selected in the Settings applet (in the US, anyway). Thanks!

[rickp]

Thank you so much! I now have the globe button on my keyboard and can autocorrect in both languages.

 

I'm very happy, thank you!

[Steven_Draker]

You're quite welcome. I'm glad you've got the globe button.