Update localization.md #881
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This implies that Hebrew voice instructions are unsupported. But in fact the Directions API does produce Hebrew instructions, and this Stack Overflow answer implies that at least some Android devices do support Hebrew in the Android TTS engine.
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@1ec5 I was looking at that answer earlier. The accepted answer seems incorrect, as it's showing usage of Locale#getAvailableLocales which seems unfortunately unrelated to Locales that are actually supported by Android TextToSpeech
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I haven't been able to track down actual confirmation that TextToSpeech does support Hebrew
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Couldn't find either. Apparently "Google Translate" doesn't support voice for Hebrew language either https://www.quora.com/Why-doesnt-Google-Translate-support-voice-for-Hebrew-Language
Keeping a running list of supported languages for Android
TextToSpeechis difficult to track in a chart like this. The languages that can be used withTextToSpeechvary from device to device. So a device may not haveEnglish (United Kingdom)out-of-the-box, but a user can install the voice data needed to use if they choose.cc @1ec5 @brsbl