Automatic TTS fallback to English for Icelandic when opening dictionaries

Hi Clozemaster team,

while using Clozemaster for Icelandic → German, I noticed something that might be a bug related to text-to-speech behavior.

When I tap on a word to open the dictionaries, the word is automatically pronounced via TTS — however, the pronunciation uses an English voice/accent.

After looking into this a bit more, I realized:

  • For Icelandic, no audio-related settings are available in Clozemaster (unlike for some other languages).
  • iOS itself does not provide an Icelandic voice in Accessibility → Read & Speak → Voices.
  • It seems likely that Clozemaster (or iOS) therefore falls back to English TTS, which leads to this behavior.

For dictionary lookup, this automatic fallback pronunciation feels distracting rather than helpful.

Suggestions:

  • Either disable automatic TTS playback when opening dictionary entries if no native voice is available
  • or provide a setting to turn this behavior off in general

Here is a link to a short screen recording that shows the behavior in context:

Screen Recording

Thanks for taking a look, and thanks for all the work you put into Clozemaster — I’m enjoying it a lot.