Reading English and French with espeak in nvda

[FARHAN ISHRAK Fahim]

I am using Windows 11 24h2, nvda 2025.3. Is it possible to read both english and french simultaneously without changing voice or language with espeak and nvda?

If I use  English, it does not read french. On the other hand, if I switch to its french voice, the default voice becomes french. In other words, nvda reads everything in french language. It uses French terms instead of english.

I know english but I'm learning french. So, I need to read french. However, I cannot completely switch to French since I have not learned it yet. I know english very well.

Now, what should I do so that nvda automatically changes voice depending on the language?

I have already tried Automatic language switching (when supported) and Automatic dialect switching (when supported) but it is not changing voice depending on language.

[Rui Fontes]

Hi!

Automatic language switching (when supported) and Automatic dialect switching (when supported)  only work if the text is tagged correctly to inform screen reader in which language is the text.

This can only happens in web pages, PDF files, Word documents and one or two more types of text...

By instance, in NotePad it is not possible to set a language for the text...

The only way to bypass that is using an add-on to control the automatic language switching, but so far, none add-on is perfect...

If you want to try the one I am trying to develop, just say and I will send you a copy...

Best regards,

Rui Fontes
NVDA portuguese team

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[FARHAN ISHRAK Fahim]

Thank you. Ok you can send me. I want to try out every solution to read English and French simeltinously.

[Rui Fontes]

Hi!

Here it is:

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/39rnu1qktjcbjedbg5glj/autoLangSwitch_2025.08.26.nvda-addon?rlkey=occ86scqhsubzfe8fd884vgbl&dl=1

Best regards,

Rui Fontes
NVDA portuguese team

Às 20:24 de 17/09/2025, FARHAN ISHRAK Fahim escreveu:

Thank you. Ok you can send me. I want to try out every solution to read English and French simeltinously.

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[FARHAN ISHRAK Fahim]

Ok. Thank you.