+1 please let the user choose his language.. very painful to switch from FR-FR to FR-BE with poorly spoken instructions, name corrections made in FR-FR which are still present in FR-BE... and the problems that this causes with radars!

When crossing a border, Waze keeps the voice configured in the user preferences. This is a problem.

1- recognize that users may be multi-lingual,
2- let the user configure multiple voices (different languages, with a priority order),
3- when crossing a border, switch to a voice with a matching language to the country’s languages.
4- take into account internal borders (regions) where local languages may be different.

For example, I could understand French, English, Spanish, Catalan. If I configure voices in the priority order: French Catalan Spanish English, and travel from Valencia to France, thru Catalonia (Barcelona), it would start in Spanish, switch to Catalan when I arrive in Catalonia, then switch to French when crossing the border.

If I’d configure French, Spanish, English, then in Catalonia, it’d stay with Spanish, since it would mean I don’t understand Catalan.

I note a related old suggestion https://waze.uservoice.com/forums/59223-waze-suggestion-box/suggestions/31335289-stop-changing-language-when-you-cross-the-border
The important part is that the user configures the languages he understands so that the language selected upon border crossing is not random, but in the intersection of the languages of the new country or region, and the languages known to the user, using the user language order as priority.

This is the third or fourth time I post this! Why on earth does the iOS Waze (probably, Android, too) have to switch to the language of the country I just arrived in? Have I all of a sudden learn the language? It keeps catching me off guard when I drive with just sound alerts on. Isn't it just plain stupid???

Insert also to the possibility of removing the automatic language change selection when switching from one country to another!

You are so right, this is the most stupid bug in this navigation App.. I really do not get this why they have programmed it so that it is dependent on location in stead of the language setting in the phone.. Should be easy to solve this issue. But what is even more stupid is that the voice you did use before crossing the border is thrown out of the app! (I loose Femke every time I cross the border to Germany)

Please give us the ability to at least revert to the language of the handset, rather than of the country we're in. Makes it hard to use for travel as it is.

I often travel to other countries than Italy, but find it very uncomfortable I should learn the language of the country I visit in order to use Waze in that country!